Good morning Brendan. I wasn't aware that Udo had rebuilt the mailing list, I know he had it down for a while but glad to see it's back up and working. I am/was facing the same issues. As you may remember, I work with some substantially large voter databases. While these are mounted on a basic peer-peer network, they are generally not used in a network environment, they are basically used by me for development/import/complex reporting purposes and at times, by others for simple lookup functions.
The best solution I have found is running Oracle VirtualBox under Win10. I could have easily have done so under Win7 but don't need to. It's not that hard to learn how to do it and it's free. In the Virtual Box I'm running WinXP. The advantage of the VB is that the system runs very fast. The disadvantage is that the way it relates to directories outside the VirtualBox is slow. So basically I fire up the VB and use it as a stand-alone computer and pass data back and forth from the VB by having a shared directory for that purpose. It's working great. Another option would be VDOS which you've seen discussed here. The developer, Jos Shaars, has been working on an upgrade to VDOS that makes it much faster. VDOS is simply a small program that allows you to run DOS programs like WP & DP under Win without a lot of overhead. The current version works great and unlike the VB, isn't a separate entity but a utility. The problem with it was that for many functions it was very, very slow. Imports, reports and anything else that required a lot of disc access was significantly slow. I provided him with some large databases to examine and he's actually figured out a way to speed up the operation by significant measure but he hasn't yet finished testing it and it might be a while before it's released. He sent be a beta but I haven't had time to deal with it - it's election time here in the US. For most purposes, the current version is great and allows terrific access to the database for lookups and shorter reports. Now remember, when I import a small data set of voters it's still a quarter million of them, the larger ones over a million. And there's lots of calculations going on. You can find VDOS at VDOS.INFO. Networking in it's truest sense is a bit beyond my ability to measure. Mark Nepon was doing pretty well under 32-bit Win10 until he began networking them, then at last report he was having some problems. Good to hear from you. Good luck. Don *Don FriedmanProfessionalRecords.Com LLCPRS Data Systems* *205 S Main StreetPittsburgh, PA 152151-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 Fax* *412-400-3881 Cell/Text* On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Brendan Magill <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Yes I know I’ve been very quiet for a long time on this list, but I’m > still here and I do read all postings. > > I’ve recently had to replace my old Win XP system and I now have Win 7. I > had hoped to go straight to Win 10 but this wasn’t possible yet with the > magnification and speech output software I need to use. So I’m now getting > my head around Win 7 and so far nearly everything is working ok. > > I’ve just tried running DP and find that Windows says it cannot run this > old application. I think this is something to do with my new system having > a 64 bit processor, but that’s just a guess. I also know from other > postings on this list that there should be a way around this problem. > > So, any ideas or suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks in advance for > your thoughts. > > Cheers, > > Brendan. > > > -- > > BRENDAN MAGILL > Business, Employment & > Disability Consultancy > > 14 Barry Street > Worcester > WR1 1NR > England > > Phone(UK): 01905 28286 > Phone(International): +44 1905 28286 > > Fax(UK): 0870 127 7856 > Fax(International): +44 870 127 7856 > > Email: [email protected] > > Web: www.magill.co.uk > > UKSEABLE Project: www.ukseable.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > >
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