Thanks Don, so it seems like best solution is stick with Win XP I suppose but I'd like to have it all and use VMWare running multiple OS. My professional programmer friend uses this but he has no experience using DOS programs -- says it ought to work fine. Before I made the plunge on this VERY expensive program does anyone have any experience with VMWare running multiple OS? I'm just an amateur. Jon
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Friedman Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 10:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Running DP in Windows System 7 x64 Jon - I'm running a lesser version of win7 on a newer laptop and have had a number of odd things happen rather repeatedly running DP on it. The first is a real problem with either ::I or ::J implementation - my apps simply will not run those codes correctly on win7. Port the same apps to XP and they're fine. I've tried it a variety of ways and no matter what I try, those functions crash after a small number of records. Do not understand it at all. Secondly, when I'm running reports, even quick ones, the app seems to get lost upon completion and I can't wake the app up in the window it's running in. I'm able to kill the window with no error codes or warnings coming up about shutting down a dos app and then re-enter the application with no problem. My best guess is that win7 simply doesn't "see" the dos app in the box so it doesn't warn me not to kill it by closing the window. Don 2011/5/20 Jong <[email protected]> I've got a new computer with Win 7 x64 too! Could VMware or even running win7 and DOS under LINUX be easier? Didn't someone mention using DOSBOX earlier? Does that work in full screen mode? Jon Ong -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Pedersen Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 2:24 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [Dataperf] Running DP in Windows System 7 x64 Well here are my quick notes on getting DP to work with Win Sys 7 x64 Pro. 1. Make sure your cpu supports hardware virtualization. Both Intel and AMD maintain lists of software that do. 2. Make sure you have 4GB Ram (min) and 8 GB preferable. Goto Microsoft and download Win XP mode & Win Virtual PC. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx I run DP in a network environment. Despite claims that Virtual PC would innately share mapped drives - that didn't work for me. So I mapped the drives: With Z: mapped to my network directory, I had then had to map a network drive from within the windows virtual PC as follows: net use m: \\tsclient\z /persistent:yes I then used the M: drive in the program path, default directory etc. The directory sharing may work better on the local machine, I don't know. Otherwise.. subst? I then setup the printers in the x64 machine and set them up again in the Virtual pc with another net use statement net use lpt1:\\ipaddress\sharename /persistent:yes I then dragged a shortcut from the dp.exe to the virtual client desktop. Voila. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm not claiming this is the best way to get DP to work under System 7. But a quick perusal of the archives didn't seem to turn up any quick answers. This method suffers from two small drawbacks: a). You have to run the virtual machine. Autoloading the virtual machine is supposed to happen automagically - but I don't know how to make that happen. b). My drive mapping seems to be using the tsclient - and as such it does not support full screen mode: Windowed only. c). I am somewhat concerned what virtual mode hibernation will do if you have an open record when the machine hibernates - so I'm going to be doing some more testing in the next few days. Comments (or improvements) welcome. Chris Currently running dp with 310MB of data. - more than 500+K records. _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf -- Don Friedman ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC PRS Data Systems 205 S Main Street Pittsburgh, PA 15215 412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 Fax
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