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Can't run FPW under NT
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21/12/1999 09:13:53
David Fluker
NGIT - Centers For Disease Control
Decatur, Georgia, United States
 
 
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17/12/1999 08:59:48
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00305206
Message ID:
00306627
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30
>FWP 2.6 won't run under Win NT here. First, I got the divide by zero error. On my Win9x PC before I fixed this, FPW still ran. On the NT PC, FPW doesn't start at all after the error. So I applied the patch and confirmed that the file was patched OK. After the patching effort, FPW acted like it was coming up -- I saw the FPW screens -- but then nothing.
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>Suggestions?
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>Thanks.

Dennis,

I am having having a similar problem. Check your processes in the Task Manager (Right click the task bar and choose Task Manager, then click on Processes) and look for the NTVDM process. On our machines, NTVDM hangs and eats processor cycles. On some computers you see FPW start, some don't get that far, some pause, then the FPW app runs.

On my computer nothing appears to happen. If I try to start FPW multiple times I can bring Windows NT to its knees. 3 or 4 instances of NTVDM fighting for all of the processor time will crash the NT! So if you find NTVDM running, you'll want to kill the process.

In our office, it's not just FPW, but any Win 3 app, indeed any 16 bit code. Though we don't often run Win 3 apps, it is surprising how many new 32 bit apps still run 16 bit code! FoxPro 2.6 for DOS runs, but sluggishly.

It started after installing NT Service Pack 5 and updated NetWare drivers. I tried uninstalling them, but it had no effect. I had to set up a computer without SP5 for FPW development. I've not tried NT Service Pack 6, so I don't know if that changes anything.

If you have the same problem and solve it, please let me know what you did.

Good luck!
David.
David.
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