WILL NOT RUN in Windows XP. X-Original-To: [email protected] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.0.14 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN
Safranim/Safraniot: Encyclopedia Judaica WILL NOT RUN in Windows XP. Sadly, I know a great deal more about this problem than I will recount here. Suffice it to say that I spent weeks on this issue with the vendor from whom I bought the software (very helpful but unable to solve the problem) and with EJ in New York and Jerusalem. There is only one solution, but it is one I consider to be unacceptable. One can "build" a "virtual machine" on top of Windows XP and have that "virtual machine" emulate the Windows NT environment. HOWEVER, that means that all of the Windows XP software will NOT run concurrently. If, for example, I wanted to run EJ on the "virtual machine," I would be unable to run OUTLOOK, Excel, WORD, PowerPoint and so on at the same time. I could run ONLY EJ as a single program. I should say that there is one other solution. I do have an ancient but not entirely decrepit NT machine, and I could set it up next to my XP machine and pass files back and forth. That, however, is consummately clumsy and unlikely to solve the problem for many other people. I have, in fact, not even exercised this option. As a retired Computer Science prof., I believe that EJ has demonstrated maximum feasible incompetence. I have never previously encountered a problem in which a piece of software which runs in a previous release of an operating system fails to run in the current one. I have many pieces of "legacy" code which I run from time to time. In fact, WIN XP SP2 even allows me to run a DOS window (remember DOS?) on those rare occasions when I want to do something at a very low level. I never did succeed in solving this problem. The vendor went so far as to offer me a credit to be used toward purchasing other software. I have not yet taken that option. DON P.S. If you want the instructions on running that "virtual machine," please write to me off-line. If very many people want the instructions, I will post them. _________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng. 1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885 Ph. 517.337.1545 FAX 517.337.1665 http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
