First of all I agree with the rest of the responders.

It's not bad news. It's just the the breaks. I have a tough time getting tubes for my old ham radio equipment too.

Have you tried setting compatibility mode in the properties of the shortcut? It *might* help.

You may also be having problems looking in some (actually lots of) folders in Vista. I no longer have Fox/Dos here to even try though.

>Just got our new Vista system, and started testing some of our legacy Foxpro 2.6 applications. This is the first incompatibility we detected:
>
>The RUN Command does not SEE any files!
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>For example when you run
>RUN dir/p
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>It does not show the file names.
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>If you run RUN COPY *.DBF c:\trash
>It responds with "File does not exist..."
>
>So, if you are using the RUN command to copy files w/Wild Card name/extension, you'll have problem (Since Foxpro2 does not support wild card in it's COPY FILE command).
>
>I even right clicked on all the Fox*.exe files and set their compatibility to Windows XP (since it works just fine under XP).
>
>Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated.
>Cyrus