Filepro 4.8 running on Windows 7

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Sun Feb 21 11:32:20 PST 2010


On 2/21/2010 12:03 AM, Robert Rabinowitz wrote:
> Update:
>
> After poking around, I finally found the problem - the human interface
> (me)!.
>
> It turns out,  a few lines in 'c:\fpplus.bat' came over corrupted and this
> caused the problem I experienced.
>
> Everything seems to be working fine for now in Windows 7 with XPmode,

It runs fine on my Win7 64-bit system natively.  No need for XPmode here.

> except for 'full screen mode'.

Vista supported full-screen mode only on some hardware platforms. 
Apparently, Windows 7 doesn't support it at all.  My Win7 system returns 
"ERROR_CALL_NOT_IMPLEMENTED" when calling the Windows SetConsoleDisplayMode 
function.

[...]
> help. I did check on the version which turns out to be 4.08.00. Hopefully I
> will not find any additional 'gotchas'. Thanks again to this great list!

Of course, 4.8 is long past its support lifetime, and 4.8.00 is ancient.

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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