FPPAT4.MSG,  -p.o.-, Darwin BBS,    08/31/91

Updating FoxPro by installing patches posted by Fox Software at
Compuserve has become such a confusing exercise requiring you to be a
brain surgeon or rocket scientist. The problem is there are so many
bloody files due to things like Standard, Extended, Single-user, LAN,
distribution kit, etc. etc. As if that were enough, Fox made things more
complex by having two "baseline" products--July 12 & July 19.
Consequently you needed a different patch depending on which baseline
you had. Moreover, in the past, you had to reinstall the distribution
kit after you apply the patch.

Beginning with Patch 4 (to bring FP 2.0 to the Aug 29 version) Fox gives
you a utility program PATCH.EXE which reads a supplied small .dbf
(PATCH.DBF) and the various FoxPro programs you have installed, then
tells you what patch files you need to bring your version to the current
version. What you should do then is first download this ZIP file (I call
FPPAT4.ZIP) containing PATCH.EXE/PATCH.DBF, then run

   PATCH -V

in your FP subdirectory.  See READ.ME file on this .zip for more info. I
found that I didn't need to reinstall any distribution kit files over
any files I had.  BTW, CHNG4.LOG in this file summarizes what had been
fixed in the 8/29 version.

Good luck.