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[dklingman]

i've read some posts here, but i would like it if someone can fully confirm my findings...

we have an old FPD app running at a customers site. the application works perfectly. however, it's their hardware that's causing the problems. so we would like to upgrade their hardware and we were initially thinking about upgrading the FPD app to VFP... however everything i've read describes major problems in doing this and suggest that it would just be better to re-write the app in VFP. Then i did some more research to see if the FPD would run on new machines and found that some people have been running FPD 2.6 apps on WIN2K and WINXP machines with no problems, after they've ran the patches. I really, REALLY need some one that maybe running an old DOS version app on and WIN2K machine or WINXP machine to confirm this and that it does indeed work with no problems...

also if so is it just a matter or running the patches and then tranfering the app and data to the new machine?

Thank you,
Derek Klingman

 

[Mike Lewis]

Derek,

My client is in exactly the same position. I posted a similar question a couple of days ago, and got some good responses. See thread182-1265273

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[dklingman]

Mike,

First thank you for the link... I'm going to read over all of that... did you get the FPD app running?... I just really need to be able to go back to my boss with a sure fire answer.

 

[rob444]

dklingman,

any FPD application can run on new machines, provided you anticipate some problems to be expected as stated in the thread Mike gave you.

Rob.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Derek,

did you get the FPD app running?

It's early days yet. They're in a similar position to yourself. They want some reassurance about whether to buy the new PCs.

It'll be a few weeks before I know for sure if they succeed. I'll let you know, of course.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[alvechurchdata]

I just really need to be able to go back to my boss with a sure fire answer.

I couldn't give you a guarantee. I've got a couple of clients with FPD apps running on XP but neither app is perfect. They're putting up with the annoyances because it's cheaper than paying me to either fix them or rewrite the whole thing.

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[rob444]

Recently I've written a FAQ on this subject.

FAQ182-6380

Rob.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Rob,

I'm sure I'll find your FAQ very useful. Have a star.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[pthalacker]

Derek,

We have a FoxPro DOS app running on XP. It uses @Say, Get, Read warts and all. We had to tweak the fonts on most of the screens. Then we recompiled it in VFP8 and haven't touched it since. What you don't want to do is try to translate the DOS scx files to VFPscx files. I don't know of anyone who had any luck with that.

pamela