DOS > File Handles setting in config.sys file

[Guest]

I desperately need to use a Dos based custom program written in CLIPPER. In WinME, I can set the file handles (files=99)and save and this solves my problem of not having enough file handles. In Win XP, I save the same changes but it is not reflected when I use my program. It appears that Win XP does not recognize that I have added the (files=99) line to the config.sys. Does anybody understand why this is happening? How do I change the file handles that will allow me to use the program I need? Does anyone out there understand Clipper?

On another note, why would some exec files work and others and other freeze up the computer with the internal speaker alarm going off?

 

[Mikhail Zhilin]

Jeff,

WinXP does not use Config.sys. For DOS programs it uses
Config.nt and Autoexec.nt instead, that are in \windows\system32 folder.
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[NobodyMan]

Jeff,

WinXP does not use Config.sys. For DOS programs it uses
Config.nt and Autoexec.nt instead, that are in \windows\system32 folder.

Also recognize the WinXP doesn't use any form of MS-DOS. You may just
have to resign yourself to the fact that your old DOS program just
won't work in XP and move on.

 

[Mikhail Zhilin]

You are correct -- but probably it is not this case: as far as I know,
Clipper programs do run in XP environment.

To Jeff:

I knew Clipper only as a user, and that was so long ago... But from my
memory -- try to add a line to the end of Autoexec.nt:

SET CLIPPER=239

and try to increase the value of FILES in Config.nt from 120 (default
value) to 240
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Mikhail Zhilin (MS MVP - Win9x)
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[Ken Blake]

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Also recognize the WinXP doesn't use any form of MS-DOS. You may just
have to resign yourself to the fact that your old DOS program just
won't work in XP and move on.

Although it's true that Windows XP doesn't contain or "use" DOS,
it is *not* therefore necessarily true that his "old DOS program
just won't work in XP."

Although there is no DOS in XP, there is DOS emulation, and many
DOS programs work just fine. Whether or not his will, I don't
know, but I certainly wouldn't start out assuming that it
doesn't.