Transferring DOS acct program to XP

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A friend has a DOS accounting program running on Win98. They want to use
the same program on their new XP Pro machine. I think the chances are
pretty good that he program will work, but are we likely to be able to
transfer all the data? What is the best way to accomplish this?

[the company that made the acct s.w. is called "IDI," and they basically
will not address the issue. they say only that they do not support that
version of their product on XP and that they have no plans of designing a
Windows version]

Please let me know if I left out critical info.

thank you,

jm
 
JM said:
A friend has a DOS accounting program running on Win98. They want to use
the same program on their new XP Pro machine. I think the chances are
pretty good that he program will work, but are we likely to be able to
transfer all the data? What is the best way to accomplish this?

[the company that made the acct s.w. is called "IDI," and they basically
will not address the issue. they say only that they do not support that
version of their product on XP and that they have no plans of designing a
Windows version]

Please let me know if I left out critical info.

thank you,

jm
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Just copy the program and its data across to the WinXP PC.
 
Pegasus said:
A friend has a DOS accounting program running on Win98. They want to use
the same program on their new XP Pro machine. I think the chances are
pretty good that he program will work, but are we likely to be able to
transfer all the data? What is the best way to accomplish this?

[the company that made the acct s.w. is called "IDI," and they basically
will not address the issue. they say only that they do not support that
version of their product on XP and that they have no plans of designing a
Windows version]

Please let me know if I left out critical info.

thank you,

jm
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Just copy the program and its data across to the WinXP PC.
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....and it should be run out of the DOS box. If this accounting
program is anything like the pre-Windows Peachtree Accounting,
it should run OK in this way. An issue that may surface involves
the printer but not a major one if using HP Laserjets capable of
handling the older PCL commands.
 
Pegasus (MVP) said:
JM said:
A friend has a DOS accounting program running on Win98. They want to use
the same program on their new XP Pro machine. I think the chances are
pretty good that he program will work, but are we likely to be able to
transfer all the data? What is the best way to accomplish this?

[the company that made the acct s.w. is called "IDI," and they basically
will not address the issue. they say only that they do not support that
version of their product on XP and that they have no plans of designing a
Windows version]

Please let me know if I left out critical info.

thank you,

jm
Click to expand...

Just copy the program and its data across to the WinXP PC.
Click to expand...
Is a Fat32 file system required?
 
Ghostrider said:
A friend has a DOS accounting program running on Win98. They want to use
the same program on their new XP Pro machine. I think the chances are
pretty good that he program will work, but are we likely to be able to
transfer all the data? What is the best way to accomplish this?

[the company that made the acct s.w. is called "IDI," and they basically
will not address the issue. they say only that they do not support that
version of their product on XP and that they have no plans of designing a
Windows version]

Please let me know if I left out critical info.

thank you,

jm
Click to expand...


Just copy the program and its data across to the WinXP PC.
Click to expand...


...and it should be run out of the DOS box. If this accounting
program is anything like the pre-Windows Peachtree Accounting,
it should run OK in this way. An issue that may surface involves
the printer but not a major one if using HP Laserjets capable of
handling the older PCL commands.
Click to expand...

"DOS box"? Probably "Command Prompt", as there is no DOS
under WinXP. DOS is an operating system.
 
Ron Sommer said:
Pegasus (MVP) said:
JM said:
A friend has a DOS accounting program running on Win98. They want to use
the same program on their new XP Pro machine. I think the chances are
pretty good that he program will work, but are we likely to be able to
transfer all the data? What is the best way to accomplish this?

[the company that made the acct s.w. is called "IDI," and they basically
will not address the issue. they say only that they do not support that
version of their product on XP and that they have no plans of designing a
Windows version]

Please let me know if I left out critical info.

thank you,

jm
Click to expand...

Just copy the program and its data across to the WinXP PC.
Click to expand...
Is a Fat32 file system required?
Click to expand...

Who cares? Applications don't know and don't need to know
what the underlying file system is.
 
Pegasus said:
Pegasus (MVP) wrote:

A friend has a DOS accounting program running on Win98. They want to
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use
the same program on their new XP Pro machine. I think the chances are
pretty good that he program will work, but are we likely to be able to
transfer all the data? What is the best way to accomplish this?

[the company that made the acct s.w. is called "IDI," and they basically
will not address the issue. they say only that they do not support that
version of their product on XP and that they have no plans of designing
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a
Windows version]

Please let me know if I left out critical info.

thank you,

jm


Just copy the program and its data across to the WinXP PC.
Click to expand...


...and it should be run out of the DOS box. If this accounting
program is anything like the pre-Windows Peachtree Accounting,
it should run OK in this way. An issue that may surface involves
the printer but not a major one if using HP Laserjets capable of
handling the older PCL commands.
Click to expand...


"DOS box"? Probably "Command Prompt", as there is no DOS
under WinXP. DOS is an operating system.
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DOS box = from the command prompt.
 
There is, however, in all NT Operating Systems, a 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem.

command.com is the MS-DOS command interpreter and runs under ntvdm.exe (NT
Virtual Dos Machine). ntvdm.exe emulates an Intel 80286 machine running
MS-DOS. NT uses a VDM that contains an extra software layer called the
Win16 on Win32 (WOW) layer and wowexec.exe (Windows On Windows Execution
Process) supplies that extra layer.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Pegasus (MVP) said:
Ghostrider said:
A friend has a DOS accounting program running on Win98. They want to
use the same program on their new XP Pro machine. I think the chances
are pretty good that he program will work, but are we likely to be
able to transfer all the data? What is the best way to accomplish
this?

[the company that made the acct s.w. is called "IDI," and they
basically will not address the issue. they say only that they do not
support that version of their product on XP and that they have no
plans of designing a Windows version]

Please let me know if I left out critical info.

thank you,

jm


Just copy the program and its data across to the WinXP PC.
Click to expand...


...and it should be run out of the DOS box. If this accounting
program is anything like the pre-Windows Peachtree Accounting,
it should run OK in this way. An issue that may surface involves
the printer but not a major one if using HP Laserjets capable of
handling the older PCL commands.
Click to expand...

"DOS box"? Probably "Command Prompt", as there is no DOS
under WinXP. DOS is an operating system.
Click to expand...
 
Who cares? Applications don't know and don't need to know
what the underlying file system is.
Click to expand...

Any program running under WinXP - whether a fully GUI program or a
16-bit program running in a console window - will be able to access
files on any file system supported by the OS: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32,
NTFS, CDFS. Programs call standard OS functions to read and write
files, they know nothing about the file system.
 
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