Bob and Bob Thanks for your replies. Both of you are pointing them in the direction of checking the video card / drivers. Can you indicate the exact sequence of mouse clicks / menu selections needed to check what the driver is - to see if it's "using the default" or "not the correct drivers for the video card under DOS mode"? I'm helping them over the phone so I need to be able to do it on my XP while walking them through checking / changing it on my XP.
How do I find what the setup is? How do I tell if it's right / wrong? How do I change and what do I change it to? Thanks! David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Speth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 8:23 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: R:BASE for DOS 6.5++ on XP > 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 > >
