Running fp 4.8 for DOS on Windows XP home edition

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting GCC Consulting (Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:05:51 -0400):

[...]
> On
>> Behalf Of John
[...]
>> If anyone 20 year user or better can make this edition run on XP, Please
>> respond.
[...]
> However, might I suggest that you create that Vista should be configured
> similar to a *nix install as it doesn't like executables (bat files) in the
> root directory.

Well, he's in XP, not Vista, so that particular point isn't relative here.

However, under Vista, you cannot create files in the root directory (at
least, not on C:) unless you have administrator privileges.  Note that even
the administrator account doesn't have administrator privileges unless you
run the program with "run as administrator".

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