[dba-Tech] 1-2-3 DOS version under XP

William, thanks but as you say that's under W95 or W98 but it's not enough
under W2K or XP I'm afraid.

To answer your question of why - the boss of my main client was a bit of a
whizz with early 123 macros and developed years ago some pretty impressive
spreadsheets which read production data and provide immediate feedback to
the factory on how the lines are performing. But he's not kept his 123
skills up-to-date and the spreadsheets don't just convert to the latest
versions. (I'm telling you what he's told me cos I wouldn't know one way or
the other.) Now the old version runs fine on W98 but not under W2K or WXP,
and the problem is in getting Expanded Memory. 

Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 






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> William Hindman
> Sent: 02 December 2003 00:31
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] 1-2-3 DOS version under XP
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> 
> ...run 1-2-3 in compatibility mode
> 
> ...create a config.sys file
> 
> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
> DOS=UMB
> 
> ...that "ought" to do it but then I've not tried anything 
> like that since W95 :(
> 
> William Hindman
> Government is not reason, government is not persuasion, 
> government is force. It is a dangerous servant." G. Washington
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andy Lacey" <andy at minstersystems.co.uk>
> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" 
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> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:11 PM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] 1-2-3 DOS version under XP
> 
> 
> > Does anyone have any experience of successfully running the old DOS
> version
> > of 1-2-3 (v2.3 in this case) under WXP? Specifically how to get 
> > Expanded Memory working.
> >
> > Andy Lacey
> > http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
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