winxp run old dos program

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Thinking about buying a new laptop that comes with winxp. Before

I buy it , I want to know will it run an my old dos program (Quattro

Pro 2.0). See that is old. Any help will be appricated.

deltabob
 
No, update to a real office program,
such as Microsoft office 2003.

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| Thinking about buying a new laptop that comes with winxp. Before
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| I buy it , I want to know will it run an my old dos program (Quattro
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| Pro 2.0). See that is old. Any help will be appricated.
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| deltabob
 
Thinking about buying a new laptop that comes with winxp. Before

I buy it , I want to know will it run an my old dos program (Quattro

Pro 2.0). See that is old. Any help will be appricated.

deltabob
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It's possible, but not natively. You would have to use an emulator. I
use Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 with MS-DOS 6 loaded and run any DOS
apps I want (usually MASM) in a full screen. But a free possibility
exists here:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

It says it's used for DOS games mostly but that DOS apps should run,
although printer and network support is weak. HTH.

Ron
 
deltabob said:
Thinking about buying a new laptop that comes with winxp. Before

I buy it , I want to know will it run an my old dos program (Quattro

Pro 2.0). See that is old. Any help will be appricated.

deltabob
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Don't know about Quattro, but I run an old compiled Basic program on XP
Pro. I go to RUN, type COMMAND, and I've got a DOS window. When I'm
done, I type EXIT.
 
Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:59:38 GMT from deltabob
Thinking about buying a new laptop that comes with winxp. Before
I buy it , I want to know will it run an my old dos program (Quattro
Pro 2.0). See that is old. Any help will be appricated.
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The answer is "quite possibly". I'm running a 1991 version myself for
one legacy application, and it seems okay in full screen or window.
 
Wed, 1 Feb 2006 21:20:18 -0600 from Carey Frisch [MVP]
No, update to a real office program,
such as Microsoft office 2003.
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Gee, that was helpful.

Perhaps you've got a few hundred dollars to spare, but maybe the OP
does not.
 
I must comment on this caustic rebuff; 99% of my daily work is through dBASE
V, an antiquarian dinosaur software, which works perfectly on XP.
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Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:17:46 GMT from P D Sterling
I must comment on this caustic rebuff; 99% of my daily work is through dBASE
V, an antiquarian dinosaur software, which works perfectly on XP.
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I wouldn't say "99%", but I do have you beat in antiquity: my
accounting system is a dBase IV rev 1.1! (I wrote the application.)

It works almost perfectly in a window in XP -- the only problems are
that the cursor is somewhat hard to see, and I can't print to printer
from it but must print to file.

(Yes, I know about the "how to print from a DOS program" Web pages.
As I posted about a year ago, the advice given there doesn't work for
me -- I no longer remember the details.)
 
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