Vista - ms dos foxpro 2.6a (X) will work ?

Let me know whether ms dos foxpro 2.6a (X) will work in windows vista system ?
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MRN

How about doing a GOOGLE search on "Foxpro and Vista" and see what comes up

"NITHIYANANDAN M R" <mrnsts@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Let me know whether ms dos foxpro 2.6a (X) will work in windows vista
> system ?
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> MRN

There is no support for 16-bit apps in Vista.

"NITHIYANANDAN M R" <mrnsts@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Let me know whether ms dos foxpro 2.6a (X) will work in windows vista
> system ?
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> MRN

"LaRoux" <hlx@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> There is no support for 16-bit apps in Vista.
>


There's no truth to that... just for the heck of it I tried some old 16 bit
apps
and they worked fine
(of course that does not mean all old apps will work)

It is only 64 bit Vista that has no support for 16 bit. A 32 bit
application with a 16 bit installer will also not work on x64 Vista.

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"LaRoux" <hlx@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> There is no support for 16-bit apps in Vista.
>
> "NITHIYANANDAN M R" <mrnsts@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:811B063B-5D36-46D9-B8F3-481DA8839C0F@microsoft.com...
>> Let me know whether ms dos foxpro 2.6a (X) will work in windows vista
>> system ?
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>> MRN
>
>

The 16-bit MS-DOS subsystem will not support full screen mode..
I have an old game that won't play because of that.


"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "LaRoux" <hlx@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
> news:efQqQc1ZHHA.3268@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> There is no support for 16-bit apps in Vista.
>>
>
>
> There's no truth to that... just for the heck of it I tried some old 16
> bit
> apps
> and they worked fine
> (of course that does not mean all old apps will work)
>
>

"Dave" <dave@roadrunner.com> wrote in message
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> The 16-bit MS-DOS subsystem will not support full screen mode..
> I have an old game that won't play because of that.
>



The OP never asked about full screen
he just wanted to know if it would work

so? I was just pointing out that some old programs won't run.

LOL


"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "Dave" <dave@roadrunner.com> wrote in message
> news:uPKo5y9ZHHA.4000@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> The 16-bit MS-DOS subsystem will not support full screen mode..
>> I have an old game that won't play because of that.
>>
>
>
>
> The OP never asked about full screen
> he just wanted to know if it would work
>
>

Hi!

I don't have personal experience with FPD and Vista but I found the
following in Julie Lehrman's blog:
http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/2006...dFPW26Too.aspx

>>
FoxPro 2.5 DOS on Vista (and FPW26, too)
I just had to see! And it works. I can run my old FoxPro 2.5 DOS and FoxPro
2.6 Windows applications on Vista CTP 5270. I only started up the apps and
did a few functions. No thorough testing by any means. But I thought that
was pretty cool.
<<

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Cindy Winegarden
cindy@cindywinegarden.com


VFP OLE DB: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb190232.aspx
VFP ODBC: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb190233.aspx




"NITHIYANANDAN M R" <mrnsts@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Let me know whether ms dos foxpro 2.6a (X) will work in windows vista
> system ?
> --
> MRN