Foxpro 2.6 on Windows 7 home premium edition 64 bit

[SBTBILL]

Loaded the XP client. Upped the memory to 640mg

The program I wanted to run, ran fine in local mode but when I tried to run it off the network it was very slow. Any help for that.

I had a lot of difficulty getting the program to see the network even with mapped drives. Thus while I could get the program to run couldn't get to the data.

The program is an old version of SBT running in foxpro 2.6.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[BadBigBen]

have you tried it with the LATEST version of FoxPro 9.0 SP2 (or at least with version 3 as that is supported under Win7)?

I mean you may not get the whole thing running correctly, seeing that it is from the early 90's (where even Win95 wasn't around yet) trying to run on an OS that is 16 or 17 years younger, and if I am correct it might still be a 16bit application, where as version 3.0 is 32bit...



Ben
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[linney]

List of limitations in 64-Bit Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/282423#appliesto

32-bit and 64-bit Windows: frequently asked questions

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/41531554-d5ef-4f2c-8fb9-149bdc5c8a701033.mspx

 

[SBTBILL]

Actually the application they have is 8 bit DOS. But it runs in Foxpro 2.6 DOS which is 16 bit. It does not translate well to Windows. First thing I did was try 9 though I didn't expect it to work. Client doesn't want to upgrade. Vendor doesn't sell an upgrade for this edition. Sage Pro ERP would be the upgrade but it is totally different.

 

[BadBigBen]

OK, if the application is all that is needed, why not attempt to use either a virtual machine, and install an earlier Windows version (i.e. Win98se or 2k or XP) which supports 16bit (8bit) applications, or try DOSBox?


DOSBox

http://www.dosbox.com/

VirtualBox

https://www.virtualbox.org/

don't know about DOSBox and networking, but under VirtualBox installed OS's can be networked over the host and act like separate PC's (using the bridged setting)...



Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"

 

[jlockley]

I don't know what engine it uses, but those dealing with Paradox and BDE have had to change some settings in the BDE Administrator. It's worth checking out.

 

[xwb]

If they ran it on a VM then the underlying hardware can keep on changing and they don't have to change anything: just take the VM from one machine to another. With a VM the whole environment is already set up so it is ready to run immediately after copying over. With VMWare, you can even get it to load when the user logs in. Just have to tell them the shutdown sequence.