Hi Marcos I personally have not had any experience with Windows 8, but I think I can answer a little.
I think DP is probably more well behaved than FoxPro, which always pushed the envelope a little with regards to memory management and use of hardware. My limited testing of vDOS has been that it works without any problems, however Don Friedman has had some performance issues, although personally I think they might relate to 16-bit/32-bit/64-bit issues on the hardware. If you are running a pure MS-DOS environment you should be able to use a MS Networking client, although they can be a pain to set up, and you have to remember that share names from the server must adhere to DOS's 8.3 naming convention, and also from memory you have to fiddle with password settings. For vDOS you let Windows 8 do the networking, and then just map a drive letter in the VDOS autoexec.txt to point to the corresponding Windows folder. In regards to CodePage I know nothing :-) Good luck Brian . -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcos Favero Florence de Barros Sent: Sunday, 4 May 2014 4:48 AM To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group Subject: [Dataperf] Change in hardware 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 _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
