Paradox 4.x in Windows

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My company has a Paradox 4.5 application that we run. Currently we run Windows 95 machines which we re-boot into DOS mode. Some of our other offices just run DOS machines to do this.

I can get Paradox to run in a DOS window on Windows 95, but I can't seem to get the database connection to work. In my script to start the system, I first map the network drives, then we set up our database connections. It says it connects successfully, but then we can't ping the server.

Any suggestions?

 

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MJPCOV,

Make sure you're mapping the network drives to logical drive letters and then refer to those drive letters when configuring Paradox/DOS's NUPDATE program. (Paradox/DOS doesn't know how to deal with UNC or TCP/IP addresses.)

Don't forget that you have to start Paradox/DOS with the -extk 16000 -share command line options.

Hope this helps...

-- Lance

 

[Langley]

If you can't ping the server then the fault is the lack of a network connection, not Paradox. Ping should work irrespective of Paradox - if you have a tcpip connection. What kind of network are you using? Mac

 

[Guest_imported]

When I try to run my application I start it using
paradox -extk 14336 -emk 0 then the script name. I can ping the server, but I can't get a connection to the database server. We use a Sybase server. Ordinarily when we re-boot the windows machine to DOS it works. But we are moving away from Win95 and I would like to get this working in a DOS box.

Thank you for your ideas.