To ensure he can access the data and have support going forward, you may be better off converting to another program. I'm aware of 1 company with a data conversion, there may be others.
Regards, Simon > Unfortunately Les some of those suggestions had been tried now all have been > tried without success. How can one determine if there are other dependent > files incl for licensing reasons, given this is a DOS application? Is there > an application that will list what is happening? > > > Rgds > Michael > > > > > _____ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Les Ferguson > Sent: Thursday, 18 January 2007 7:48 AM > To: General Practice Computing Group Talk > Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] Medidata.exe - refuses to start > > > The name 'medidata' is used by multitudes of developers (apparently with > limited imaginations). > If you cannot determine the vendor or author of the software then you are > probably not going to get support or further information on the run-time > environment requirements. > > I assume the app is being run in a window under Windows? Have you tried > tweaking the dos environment settings for the application? If you look at > the properties for the shortcut created under Windows there are a number of > settings which may help, e.g. compatibility mode settings (does 98 have > that?), or dos display options - sometimes limiting the fonts to bitmap-mode > only can make a difference (depending on the type of executable being run). > > Les Ferguson > > Business Analyst > > Medtech Software Ltd > > Auckland, New Zealand > > > _____ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dr Michael Daly > Sent: Thu 2007-01-18 02:46 > To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' > Subject: [GPCG_TALK] Medidata.exe - refuses to start > > > Hello again > Does anyone know of 'Medidata'? > > A colleague who wishes to continue using this 1990's locally developed > DOS-based database program has manually transferred all files across to his > new computer but is having problems getting it to do what its supposed to > do. The installation discs are missing. He does not want to upgrade > > The program starts in a dos shell, but the DOS screen is mashed up and won't > accept input. > > I tried transferring it to another windows 98 box, but the result was the > same. > > I presume it may be a security / licensing issue, but cannot find relevant > entries in regedit > > Any advice would be appreciated > Regards > Michael > Melbourne > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
