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Fox Dos (Foxpro 2.0)
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05/08/1999 07:20:30
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00249971
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00250103
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>I have a client that has a DOS application that works wonderfully.. Still runs on a 286. The 286, has seen better days and is in need of replacement. (No Y2K issues, uses 4 digit years from beginning)
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>Does anyone know of any issues with the newer PC's and Foxpro for DOS?
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>I really don't want to install DOS on the machine as this will be more work for me. I would probably be setting it up in Windows NT or Windows 95/98.
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>Is there a reason to pick NT over Win 9x?
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>I really don't want to rewrite the application, as it works!!!
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>Just the PC it runs on does not.
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>TIA,
>
>Mike

Mike,

FPD 2.0 has a bug that only appears on faster machines : the function (sys(I don't know by heart) that generates unique filenames, actually generates duplicate names and I don't remeber if this was a problem at runtime but developing was a pain before I understood what was happening the time I used v2.0 because I kept loosing screens and reports (didn't save correctly) ...
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