64bit Question

[Walter Vaughan]

GCC Consulting wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net] 
>Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:58 PM
>To: GCC Consulting
>Cc: '0 Filepro List'
>Subject: Re: 64bit Question
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>On 9/6/2011 2:41 PM, GCC Consulting wrote:
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>>I am running version 4.0 thru 5.6 on 64 bit Windows ultimate and have 
>>no problems.
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>>I have not yet installed a few earlier dos versions that I have as I 
>>don't have any clients who are on earlier version the 4.0.
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>My Windows 7 64-bit system won't run MS-DOS programs.  My Vista 32-bit
>system will, including filePro version 1.0.
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>I don't know if it's a Win7 thing or a 64-bit thing.
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hum. Reading this http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff756590.aspx
it makes it seem that it should work fine with 16bit windows programs.
At a bare minumum Win7 Pro and up versions include XP vm to run stuff 
like this pretty good.

>--
>Kenneth Brody
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>Test 2 utilities I have used since dos days, these are .com programs and
>they are incompatible with 64 bit Windows.  You can't even create a shortcut
>for these programs.
>
>Richard
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