Don, you're welcome. I struggled with it a bit in the beginning so I figured it might help to post them.
Gerard 2014-03-18 15:50 GMT+01:00 Don Friedman <[email protected]>: > Gerard - thank you for posting your files, it's really helped me configure > VDos. > > Don > > > > > *Don Friedman ProfessionalRecords.Com LLCPRS Data Systems* > > > > *205 S Main StreetPittsburgh, PA 15215412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE > 412-784-1615 Fax* > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Gerard van Loenhout < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Klaus, Jens, and of course all others, >> >> I think there is a general misunderstanding of the use of vDos. vDos >> makes it possible to run DP under 64b. >> So why discuss this rebuilding your DP databases if DP still runs perfect? >> >> Running DP under vDos is very simple. Install setup.exe from >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/ >> >> My autoexec*.txt* ( in c:\vDos ) looks like: >> >> *use v: v:\db *(My database is on a network: v:\ ) >> *use c: c:* >> *c:* >> *cd \vdos* >> *dp v:\invision* >> *exit* >> >> My config.txt: >> >> *window = 30* >> *color = false* >> *frame = on* >> >> Execute vDos to start DP. >> >> Gerard >> >> >> >> 2014-03-18 11:44 GMT+01:00 khfpl <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi Jens, >>> >>> >>> >>> this is Klaus, writing from Germany and I totally underline your >>> posting. I also got addicted to DP and the whole WP Office suite around >>> 1988 and I also haven't seen anything nearly close to this powerful >>> software. Today I am using Macs and Windows based systems, but every once >>> in a while when I go back to DP (especially) I am still in awe about it. >>> The current vDos discussion has indeed sparked my interest again, and I was >>> planning (totally for private usage) to create something around ... well.. a >>> bibliographic database (to give you an idea: I am owning around 700 >>> music-related books and have totally lost track on these), and a CD and LP >>> database (or even a combination btw). >>> >>> >>> >>> As you have this in place (and assuming that at least the CD/LP database >>> is for private purposes), would you mind or would it be possible to share >>> this work? >>> >>> >>> >>> Warm regards >>> >>> Klaus Löper >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *Von:* [email protected] [mailto: >>> [email protected]] *Im Auftrag von *Jens Høeg >>> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 18. März 2014 11:09 >>> *An:* Dataperfect Users Discussion Group >>> *Betreff:* Re: [Dataperf] Is it time to abandon DP after 24 years? >>> >>> >>> >>> Dear All >>> >>> >>> >>> I am NOT normally active contributor on the list, but listen in to the >>> more urgent items that are discussed. I started using DP in 1988 when it >>> first came out and became an addict because of its intimate relation to WP >>> under the Office package (the Shell macros were what really sent this >>> combination flying and I have never seen anything like that under Windows. >>> Once you learned to use the Macro editor and the power of the Office >>> Clipboard you were really at a vantage point). >>> >>> >>> >>> I use DP for my Bibliographic database which it quite complex with >>> formulas for many fields that automatically updates or suggest entries at >>> record creation. I also use it to organize my collection of CD's and LP's >>> in a similarly rather intricate relational database. >>> >>> >>> >>> So why not shift to e.g. ENDNOTE for the bibliographical and FILEMAKER >>> PRO for other more user defined purposes or something like that? Well, >>> firstly the harassment of reprogramming and exporting and importuning. But >>> that could be done of course. What keeps me stuck is the unbeatable user >>> interface in DP. Firstly, you can do everything by the keyboard! That is a >>> boon on a laptop. Secondly, the division of the screen into the record and >>> the look up panel is again unbeatable. Finally, and I guess really most >>> important: That each field can be used as a look up field and with its own >>> field list and index associated with it and these things can (if you wish) >>> be changed easily while the database is still filled with data. Add to that >>> that the filesizes are very small, and that Dataperfect run real fast, the >>> only thing I miss is real mouse interface to get rapidly to fields (I never >>> bothered with the DP mouse, but maybe I should) and that files are xported >>> in WP 4.x format rather than WP 5.X so you often need to import exported >>> filed to WP first, then save before importing to WORD. If not, you loose >>> diacritical characters, underlining and such like. >>> >>> >>> >>> There is another hassle: For us that use non US keyboards it is a bother >>> to set up Office/WP/DP to make the keyboard work. If you do not do it right >>> both keys (often all shifted keys) and Function (F) keys do not work. I do >>> nthat now by starting Office form a bat file that first invokes the Danish >>> keyboard setup as under old MS dos Config.sys and autoexec. I got help for >>> that here form the list. But this batch file has to tuned to each and every >>> PC because WIN (I still use XP) is not really the same on all PC systems. >>> So sometimes I need a long detailed command in the batch file invoking the >>> codepage 865 and other times I just call "kb16 dk" and there you are. >>> >>> >>> >>> I have not tried other command prompt systems than the integrated >>> Command Prompt in Win XP. May be I should, especially, and I fear the day, >>> when I have to move from outdated XP to a newer WIN platform. >>> >>> >>> >>> But on XP I enjoy that you can grab things from the Dos window and thus >>> from DP and insert it into the Win clipboard. You jst have to invoke that >>> option in your doswindow (batchfile) shortcut. It even works with the WIN >>> OFFICE clipboard so you can do multiple "puts" from the DP windows and thus >>> for a single record incrementally put fiels to the WIN system. A little >>> slow but it works when you need it. >>> >>> >>> >>> One final note: I venture WP (5.1) DP and WP-OFFICE as among the top >>> programs that were ever made. Nothing, but nothing beats WP and its "style" >>> and "macro" system. I am missing that every day under WORD. Sure you can >>> program macros, sure they can be allocated to keyboard strokes but making >>> an on the fly macro that makes a complicated search and replace function >>> and then repeating that macro to run multiple times? Forget it under WIN >>> unless you want to creep deep into programming. >>> >>> >>> >>> Not everything on computers is an advance. Windows won out mostly >>> because it offered a system for those that did not want to "know anything" >>> and not wanted to "climb any learning curve" such as learning by heart the >>> F-key combinations in WP and DP. WIN and OFFICE remains systems that are >>> slow to use and difficult to shape to user needs and difficult to migrate >>> to a new pC with your own preferences. Not like WP where you just needed to >>> copy your the WP system files and your macros. In WORD you cannot even >>> copy a macrto apparently unless you copy the whole "normal.dot" What a >>> bother! >>> >>> >>> >>> Hail WP/DP/Office and thanks to Lev Bastian wherever he is. His legacy >>> lives on >>> >>> >>> >>> Jens >>> >>> >>> >>> Jens T. Hoeg, PhD, DSc >>> >>> Marine Biology Section >>> >>> Room 20-1-118 >>> >>> Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen >>> >>> Universitetsparken 4, 2100 Copenhagen >>> >>> DENMARK >>> >>> Pho 28 75 12 47 >>> >>> Priv 44 84 11 60 >>> >>> Mail to: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dataperf mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dataperf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >> >> >
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