Cannot run foxpro in windowsxp

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Gautam Mehta

Can any body help me ? I cannot run my foxbase programmes
after installing WindowXP.
I made a great mistake in updating which has put me in
stuck. Can any other programme like foxpro run on XP ?
Please help me
 
Gautam said:
Can any body help me ? I cannot run my foxbase programmes
after installing WindowXP.
I made a great mistake in updating which has put me in
stuck. Can any other programme like foxpro run on XP ?
Please help me
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Foxbase probably requries some sort of runtime to be installed. Suggest
you check the instructions that came with the application.
 
Can any body help me ? I cannot run my foxbase programmes after
installing WindowXP.

I made a great mistake in updating which has put me in stuck. Can
any other programme like foxpro run on XP ?

Please help me
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Moving from windows 95 to windows-XP involved discarding some of my
software; most notably were the very expensive Foxpro 2.6, and
Autocad R10 programs. As these weren't cheap programs (both in terms
of the time required to learn the interfaces, and also the upfront
cost of the software) I was highly motivated to find some sort of
DOS emulator that would run the software. The bad news is that
I couldn't find one. Eventually I just bit the bullet, and used
another database program.

I eventually settled on the Postgresql database program. The good
news is that if you use the Postgresql database you'll be able to
transfer some of your experience gained with Foxpro. Beware though,
(like Foxpro) Postgresql is not a no-brainer to get up and running.
You'll lose at least 30 hours, configuring and installing it.
(That time doesn't include the time taken to download the program.)

A windows port of Postgresql can be downloaded from www.cygwin.com.
Please remember that with the included UNIX emulator, you'll be
looking at a download of around 150 MBytes.
 
Guy said:
Moving from windows 95 to windows-XP involved discarding some of my
software; most notably were the very expensive Foxpro 2.6, and
Autocad R10 programs. As these weren't cheap programs (both in terms
of the time required to learn the interfaces, and also the upfront
cost of the software) I was highly motivated to find some sort of
DOS emulator that would run the software. The bad news is that
I couldn't find one. Eventually I just bit the bullet, and used
another database program.

I eventually settled on the Postgresql database program. The good
news is that if you use the Postgresql database you'll be able to
transfer some of your experience gained with Foxpro. Beware though,
(like Foxpro) Postgresql is not a no-brainer to get up and running.
You'll lose at least 30 hours, configuring and installing it.
(That time doesn't include the time taken to download the program.)

A windows port of Postgresql can be downloaded from www.cygwin.com.
Please remember that with the included UNIX emulator, you'll be
looking at a download of around 150 MBytes.
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I'm familiar with PostgreSQL. Moving the database from one db system to
PostgreSQL (or any other database, e.g. MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)
is probably pretty easy but will take time (and the downloading time is
trivial) and requires knowledge. What might not be easy is
changing/reprogramming the client side of the application. And you need
to understand thatn PostgreSQL doesn't provide on it's own a client
programming environment. You still need to decide: Python, Perl, C,
C++, Java, Visual Basic, ... (on and on).
 
Hi Gautam,

You've mentioned both FoxBase and FoxPro so I'm a little confused. You also
haven't said which version of FoxPro you are using if you are using FoxPro.
Finally, you haven't said what happens when you try to run your programs.

If you're using FoxPro for Windows, there is a problem when it is run on
fast machines. The problem is not with
WinXP at all, but with the newer, faster computer XP is installed on.

You can get a patch which will allow FPW to run. See KB article 240982
"PATCH: Patch_26.exe Fixes Divide by Zero Error on Fast Computers" at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q240982.
 
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