thanks. I decided to do the forms and reports from scratch for aesthetic reasons mostly, but i'm starting to like it. re command files, i've not even scratched that surface yet. thanks for the tip, but i'm hoping my cmd files are pretty clean. the R:> prompt works well for testing commands...
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > William: I have on taps a conversion from 4.5++ to windows 9.1. We need > to keep the 4.5 DOS alive for a bit as we bring pieces over to windows. I > found out that the 4.5 code is so sloppy that some commands wouldn't run in > DOS 7.6. I tested the particular code that breaks and it did run in DOS > 6.5. So I worked with RBTI and they let the company purchase a copy of DOS > 6.5 rather than DOS 7.6 and we will convert the DOS app to 6.5. Another > case of RBTI doing whatever's necessary to get these old DOS apps converted > as quickly as possible! > > Karen > > > > > If by "production" you mean a newly converted database (from 4.5++ to 9.1, > tables and views only), I'm with you. It won't actually be "in" production > as in running my business with it until after the new forms and reports are > added. At the rate I'm going, that's gonna take a while. Target: 2- 4 > weeks, realistically, 3 or 4 months! > > > -- William Stacy, O.D. Please visit my website by clicking on : http://www.folsomeye.net
