Re: [FPD] Abnormal program termination

Author: Alan Bourke

Posted: 2013-07-08 at 10:23:44

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013, at 04:13 PM, Kevin Cully wrote:

> I've got a client that has been running a Foxpro DOS application for

> years and years, they're happy with it and they aren't going to change

> or rewrite it.

>

> Any tips from the Foxpro DOS pros? Is it time to get them into some

> sort of VM?

You could try a VM but running what? Unless you want to source MS-DOS

6.22 or Windows 3.11?

> Perhaps DOSBox?

DosBOX will certainly run FPD, but I would have concerns over printing,

and if it's a networked application then forget it as DosBOX doesn't

have any TCP/IP stack support.

>I thought I'd ask here to see if there is

> some sort of memory allocation setting I can do at the startup of the

> application.

The usual MEMLIMIT settings will apply in CONFIG.FP

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