Hi, Our Health Center database, in service since 2006, will undergo a complete hardware change. The Municipality is installing brand-new Windows 8 boxes in all offices (to run other programs).
Currently we operate DataPerfect in a network of dedicated computers running FreeDOS. Because of lack of space in the offices it will not possible to keep our DOS machines. We must now run DataPerfect under Windows 8. A fellow DOS user helped me install and test vDos in a Windows XP machine. DataPerfect is running beautifully -- and I want to thank Jos Schaars for that! But we still have a couple of questions. 1. Reading the vDos discussion list, I noticed that some FoxPro users had issues with networking. I have not seen any such questions in the list regarding DP networks. Am I right to assume that DP networks run well under vDos? 2. The new Windows 8 machines are being installed in stages, i.e., not all offices have them yet. During this transition period, when part of the machines are old and part new, will it be possible to access the Windows 8 server from a pure DOS machine running MS-Client? 3. I understand that vDos supports codepage 850. However, in our test in vDOS + Windows XP, some Portuguese accented letters (such as a + tilde) did not appear correctly. Is there anything to be set in menus or configuration files? Perhaps the right question to ask is, how should we deal with accented characters in vDos + Windows 8: codepage 850 or ANSI? (I assume UTF-8 is out of the question for DOS programs.) Thanks, Marcos -------------------------------------- Marcos Fávero Florence de Barros Campinas, Brazil _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
