>>>>>There's actually a 2.6a for DOS. We never actually upgraded to that one from the 2.6, as we weren't having any problems with 2.6. FPW2.6 was an entirely different animal, we definitely had to go to the 2.6a version there.
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>>>>Hi Fred,
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>>>>I have 2.6a for Windows too, but 2.5a was the last DOS version I had. I may need to find a source for picking up 2.6 for DOS (I have a potential client, nothing definite yet however).
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>>>I think I've heard that E-bay may have older copies for sale. There's also some other source of older software titles, but I don't recall what it is. I think this has come up before though. There may even be a FAQ for it.
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>>PMFJI:
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>>Hi Fred & Bonnie: In addition to what the others have stated, I have found 2.6a to be much more memory stable than any previous version. Specifically, when I joined WFB three years ago, they were still using 2.5 (no suffix), and started having lots of index corruption, and internal consistency errors (un-recoverable), among other things. One of the things I did was to get them upgraded to 2.6a, and the errors dropped to nil. Since 2.6a is the last DOS version, I highly recommend making that the version for your client (and yourself). In addition to the auction sites, there is a 'downgrade' option available directly from M$ -- someone has posted the URL here recently, but I don't have it handy.
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>>Good luck. HTH
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>>Rob
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>Sorry. One other thing: Don't forget the PATCH_26.EXE patch from M$ for fast CPU speed problems.

that only applies to FPW; FPDOS wasn't affected...