RE: old dos program

2011-02-07 Thread Kurt Wendt
Gary - just a little FYI - in regards to Open Source. One example is OpenOffice. Its equivalent to MS Office. However, Office is a closed type platform - in that they keep all the code - and all the code is developed at MS. An open Source application is generally free, the code is freely

Re: old dos program

2011-02-07 Thread Ted Roche
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Gary Jeurink g.jeur...@charter.net wrote: I am handicapped and somewhat homebound. I have learned what programming skills I have by reading the books you guys write. I am trying to learn php/mysql right now and have gotten stuck in the same area from two separate

Re: old dos program

2011-02-05 Thread Alan Bourke
There are a couple of nearly-right answers so far, here's the straight dope. It depends largely on whether your operating system is 64-bit or 32-bit. Here's the combinations. 32-bit CPU, 32-bit OS: Can run 16-bit programs, so in theory you are OK. 64-bit CPU, 32-bit OS: Can run 16-bit programs,

RE: old dos program

2011-02-05 Thread Alan Bourke
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:43 -0600, Gary Jeurink g.jeur...@charter.net wrote: I did it easily in pascal but I don't have a clue how to write the queries with tie breakers etc... I need to learn c# or c++ If you have Pascal skills why not do it in Delphi ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke

Re: old dos program

2011-02-05 Thread Ted Roche
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm wrote: If you have Pascal skills why not do it in Delphi ? Or maybe FreePascal: http://www.freepascal.org/ (no personal experience; just Google'd it.) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

Re: old dos program

2011-02-05 Thread Ted Roche
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Gary Jeurink g.jeur...@charter.net wrote: I need to write it in foxpro but my skills are limited I'd suggest you might Google for gymnastic scoring program (1,320,000 hits) or even better open source gymnastic scoring program and find something that someone has

RE: old dos program

2011-02-05 Thread Gary Jeurink
-Original Message- From: Kurt Wendt [mailto:kurtwe...@waitex.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 4:13 PM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: old dos program Gary - if you have the PRG's - why not just recompile it under VFP and run it that way? Even though it's a DOS FP app - you should still

RE: old dos program

2011-02-05 Thread Adam Buckland
.. An assembler, test environment and emulator for the MS6502 written in Turbo Pascal 3! Adam. -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com on behalf of Gary Jeurink Sent: Fri 2/4/2011 9:17 PM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: old dos program I wrote a gymnastics meet scoring program

RE: old dos program

2011-02-05 Thread Gary Jeurink
- From: Alan Bourke [mailto:alanpbou...@fastmail.fm] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 4:08 AM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: old dos program On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:43 -0600, Gary Jeurink g.jeur...@charter.net wrote: I did it easily in pascal but I don't have a clue how to write the queries

RE: old dos program

2011-02-05 Thread Gary Jeurink
/files. The open source thing sounds like something I'd like to learn more about. Thanks Gary Jeurink -Original Message- From: Ted Roche [mailto:tedro...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 7:59 AM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: old dos program On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:43 PM

old dos program

2011-02-04 Thread Gary Jeurink
I wrote a gymnastics meet scoring program in 1995. I had made it do everything I needed it for at the time. My motherboard had a meltdown and I got a new computer. It won't run the program and I have tried playing with the compatibility setting. It's probably a 16 bit program but it hummed along

Re: old dos program

2011-02-04 Thread Steve Ellenoff
If you're running Windows 7 ( I assume so since you said it's a new machine), it won't run 16 bit programs out of the box if I recall correctly. There was some chatter on this list about it a couple weeks ago. You'll need to install the Windows 7 Compatibility virtual machine (which

Re: old dos program

2011-02-04 Thread Paul Hill
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Steve Ellenoff sellen...@pinmame.com wrote: If you're running Windows 7 ( I assume so since you said it's a new machine), it won't run 16 bit programs out of the box if I recall correctly. There was some chatter on this list about it a couple weeks ago. It's

RE: old dos program

2011-02-04 Thread Kurt Wendt
- -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Gary Jeurink Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 4:18 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: old dos program I wrote a gymnastics meet scoring program in 1995. I had made it do everything I needed

RE: old dos program

2011-02-04 Thread Gary Jeurink
a clue how to write the queries with tie breakers etc... I need to learn c# or c++ Thanks Gary -Original Message- From: Paul Hill [mailto:paulroberth...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 3:33 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: old dos program On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:25 PM