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chessnic
I was very disappointed at the performance of the DOS window in XP
Home, which came with the new computer I just purchased. XP does not
live up to the promise, even after years of debugging.
I have run the DOS TELEMAGIC database contact manager since the 1980s.
It provides features that windows programs have not dreamed of.
Naturally, I have accumulated thousands of records, correspondence,
etc., etc. [As a Telemagic reseller, I tested the Telemagic for Windows
functionality through several builds and was disappointed enough to
drop out. Telemagic was eventually dropped by Sage. It is no longer
supported.]
Clipper-compiled Telemagic ver 14.5 "Professional" runs fine on Win 98
and prints like a wiz through LPT1.
In the XP DOS window, TM first loses the menus located at the bottom of
the screen and considerable funcationality. Then the word processor
function barely works until it crashes the program entirely. The script
function is absent. The database rebuild does not pack the records. I
have not gotten close to trying to print.
In the XP Dos properties, none of the Compatibility choices in the DOS
properties make any difference. I tried Memory options at auto and
maximum settings.
In Win 98, my config.sys reads in part:
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe noems novcpi
dos=high,umb,auto
files=250
buffershigh=4-,4
devicehigh=c:\windows\system\cpqidecd.sys /d:idecd001
shell=c:\command.com /p /e:2048
My autoexec.bat reads in part:
path c:\windows;c:\windows\command;c:\tm
set temp=c:\windows\temp
I have put these into the \system32\config.nt and autoexec.nt with no
success.
My question is why should I not replace XP with Windows 98 on my new
computer?
Thanks in advance.
Home, which came with the new computer I just purchased. XP does not
live up to the promise, even after years of debugging.
I have run the DOS TELEMAGIC database contact manager since the 1980s.
It provides features that windows programs have not dreamed of.
Naturally, I have accumulated thousands of records, correspondence,
etc., etc. [As a Telemagic reseller, I tested the Telemagic for Windows
functionality through several builds and was disappointed enough to
drop out. Telemagic was eventually dropped by Sage. It is no longer
supported.]
Clipper-compiled Telemagic ver 14.5 "Professional" runs fine on Win 98
and prints like a wiz through LPT1.
In the XP DOS window, TM first loses the menus located at the bottom of
the screen and considerable funcationality. Then the word processor
function barely works until it crashes the program entirely. The script
function is absent. The database rebuild does not pack the records. I
have not gotten close to trying to print.
In the XP Dos properties, none of the Compatibility choices in the DOS
properties make any difference. I tried Memory options at auto and
maximum settings.
In Win 98, my config.sys reads in part:
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe noems novcpi
dos=high,umb,auto
files=250
buffershigh=4-,4
devicehigh=c:\windows\system\cpqidecd.sys /d:idecd001
shell=c:\command.com /p /e:2048
My autoexec.bat reads in part:
path c:\windows;c:\windows\command;c:\tm
set temp=c:\windows\temp
I have put these into the \system32\config.nt and autoexec.nt with no
success.
My question is why should I not replace XP with Windows 98 on my new
computer?
Thanks in advance.