AFAIK, running dos programs has nothing to do with your file system, but everything to do with your OS.
The misnomer that NTFS cant run dos applications is probably caues by this: Back in win 98 days, there were 2 branches of windows, NT and regular. Regular could run dos apps, NT could not. Regular had FAT and FAT32 file systems, while NT had NTFS. These 2 branches converged around the windows 2000 time period and infact 2000 is a hybrid of NT and regular, but has problems running some DOS applications. Im not sure where XP fits between NT and "regular", but ive heard nothing but bad about XP. Seems like MS is too worried about their own agendas to address the needs of its customers and make a decent OS. But who do they have to answer to? deffinately not competition (hopefully that will change!) think of it this way, lets say i have 2 books, each with the same content, but on the first book, the table of contents is listed alphabeticly. On the second book, its listed by chapter number (1,2,3 etc). If i open up chapter 3 entitled "R:Base Rocks!" in either book, wont it be the same chapter? Similarly, it doesnt matter what file system (NTFS or FATx) you are storing data in, when it gets into RAM where its evaluated or executed, it all looks the same. whether XP can run DOS apps im not sure, but i can tell prettyt confidantly it has nothing to do with having NTFS or FATx. ----- Original Message ----- From: "tellef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:00 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Off topic - my first XP computer BITES! Well, my love affair with Toshiba laptops has ended. Just got a new Satellite to replace my Toshiba Win98 machine. Just for giggles, I checked the file system installed and it's NTFS. I've read that only FAT32 will run DOS programs. Called Toshiba, they say that they never install FAT32, that there's recovery discs included where I can reformat and do it myself but it invalidates the warranty. The reformatting isn't a big deal, I have no software loaded yet. So I want verification that all you guys running RBase DOS programs on an XP machine are using FAT32, or can you use NTFS? If you don't know how to check, My Computer, click on hard drive, right click Properties. It will show the file system. Karen who is really ticked off at the moment
