On 05/01/13 11:44 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
On 5/1/13 11:39 AM, Dan Covill wrote:
On 05/01/13 10:39 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
Have I whined^Wwritten here yet about my 16-bit utilities that do
not run natively under Windows 7? Consider it done.
Thank you Microsoft for breaking some of my important development
tools.
Believe it or not, the 16-bit utilities DO work in Windows 7, so long as you
have the
32-bit version!
My mechanic runs a 20-year-old FP-DOS app I built for him. I told him I
couldn't
test it any more because it wouldn't run under Windows 7. He went digging in
Google,
found out how to do it, bought a copy of Win7-32, installed it, and Voila! I
was
dumfounded.
That is also true for Win 8, although there is something in the setup you have
to
enable/unlock first.
I think I'd run the app in a virtual machine running DOS or whatever OS the
original
application targeted.
Paul
We tried that, Paul, but we couldn't get the printing to work. It used
the HPL laserjet command set thru a serial port, and the XP Mode did
nothing. He found out how to disable the printer driver for the Serial
port (in Win7-32) and then everything worked!
Dan
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