That everything worked on a "clean" machine, the first thing I would suspect is that WINDOWS XP was installed over WINDOWS 98 leaving incompatible code and/or files. Recommend completely deleting WINDOWS 98 and then installing WINDOWS XP on old machines.
Other than that I would suspect that WINDOWS XP does not have the correct drivers for the video card under DOS mode. Bob Speth ----- Original Message ----- From: "David M. Blocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:17 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - R:BASE for DOS 6.5++ on XP > > > Hi Folks > > > > A client of mine is upgrading their machines from Windows 98 to WIndows XP. > In one case, they brought in a NEW machine with XP, installed R:Base 6.5++ > DOS again, and it runs our application just fine. > > > > On the second, they took the SAME machine and changed it from 98 to XP. In > the process, they uninstalled 6.5++ and then installed it again. > > > > On this machine, at first they weren't getting a full screen. I helped them > with that by setting up a new icon that runs a batch file that in turn runs > RBase (paths are OK), and setting the properties on the Options Tab to "full > screen". > > > > However, they are now getting a very strange "ghosting" effect, as they > describe it to me. First the commands in the batch show on the screen even > when in R:Base. Second, when they select an item in the menu which brings > up an editing screen, and then leave that screen to return to the menu > (created with a CHOOSE command from a PULLDOWN block in an APX file), the > record just edited remains on screen in the background even though the form > has been closed. It isn't the form - it runs fine on the other machine. > > > > We checked the system variables - TEMP, TMP, FILES, BUFFERS - the latter two > were missing but we added them in. No effect.. > > > > Anyone seen anything like this before? Have any ideas what to do? They have > more PC's to upgrade but they're on hold until we figure this on out! > > > > David Blocker > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 781-784-1919 > Fax: 781-784-1860 > Cell: 339-206-0261
