Hi guys,

 

Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad.

 

Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run
certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment.
It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used
Visual dBASE here and there. 

 

The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user
whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her
new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good... you read the subject
line... Windows 7.

 

So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive,
and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has
removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs.

 

Not a happy day so far.

 

So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it
running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think.
And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago;
that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that
yet but will research that, too.

 

My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of
Win7 that would include printing?

 

Thanks,

 

Evan


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