Hi David and the rest of the list,
Just a note to tell you that there are documented problems with
NT running foxpro for dos that I just found. They are reported on
the latest Windows NT magazine page 208...don't have it in front
of me so can't quote but it's pretty bad how NT sometimes has
problems running dos apps.
DOS is old and out soon, but some companies are stuck with old
custom made apps and have no other choice to have win95-98
running. Now I wonder what's going to happen to these folks when
Win2000 comes out, with its NT core. The win95-98 series is soon
to be gone, and DOS with it.
Cheers,
-Alain
David Gillett wrote:
>
> On 6 Feb 99, at 23:20, Alain Azzam wrote:
>
> > Two years ago I wanted to install windows NT as a file server on a
> > peer-to-peer network we have here. The programmer opposed himself to
> > the project, saying that his dos programs wouldn't work well on NT.
> > Since I can't reach that guy anymore, I was wondering if he really
> > had a good reason to say so. WinNT can run 16 bits dos apps, can't
> > it ? The application is setup in a way that you have a central
> > foxpro database (dos) on the file server and multiple users can login
> > from their stations (95 or 98).
>
> DOS apps *can* access the system hardware in ways that NT won't
> allow. But there's nothing above to suggest that this application
> needs to do that.
> Perhaps the only way is to try it and see. Maybe some local vendor
> will let you test it on one of their systems, with the idea that you'll
> buy NT from them *if* it runs....
>
> David G
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