>One of my users just came back from a course where the instructor told them that Windows 2000 will not support DOS based applications and that printer manufactures will not support character based output.
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>Is this true? Will any legacy FP DOS systems be stuck at the WIN98 level?

I haven't tested this extensively; at least some DOS apps that I had run previously under NT would not run under Win2K at all. The programs I tested which used only the DOS INT21 interfaces did run OK, but my testing was minimal.

I would not be surprised if there were problems with the Extended Edition of FoxPro, especially FoxPro 2.0, because of how VDMs are managed by Win2K. These issues were at least a part of the reason that Win98 didn't merge with Win2K immediately; we're going to see at least one more Win9x family product, Millenium, before the Win9x and Win2K environments are consolidated.

A good source of information on Win2K issues is John Saville's NT FAQ