>>Does anybody remember an artical or case study discussing the problems with Foxpro 2.0 upgrade to higher DOS version?
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>>One of my clients considering the upgrade. They have tried the conversion to Foxpro 2.6 previously and failed.
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>>From my own experiance, I can't recall facing uncompartibility or similar problems in 2.0->2.5 upgrade, but again, it was has been a while.
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>>Any comments are apreciated.
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>>I have not found any DOS category so posting question under this one.
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>>Anatoliy
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>I've done the transition from 2.0 to 2.6 in one day without problems. It only prompted for codepage when I opened the old tables (in command window only); once I set that, everything went smoothly. I didn't even have to convert the reports to run them (though they converted automatically before any change).
Thank you, Dragan.
This is reassuring. Problems I encountered so far are not strictly speaking FoxPro related. For example the original program author chose to name array "wind". This word is reserved in 2.6 for a function "Window", though I could not find it (function reference) in help.
Anatoliy.
Anatoliy