FoxPro Setup - Foxpro 2.6 Disappear...

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Foxpro 2.6 Disappear...

Saurabh

2005-04-30, 3:27 am

Dear All,

After Patching up all the patches, i was succefull to install FoxPro26
for win on my machine having windows 2000 prof.

But now i am unable to open FoxPro....It shows the welcome screen and
disappears. If i try to directly open my project file....then to same thing
it shows the welcome screen of foxpro and gets disappear.

Plz help me..

Awaiting for kind help.

Regds,
Saurabh

Stefan Wuebbe

2005-04-30, 3:27 am

"Saurabh" <Saurabh@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb
> Dear All,
>
> After Patching up all the patches, i was succefull to install FoxPro26
> for win on my machine having windows 2000 prof.
>
> But now i am unable to open FoxPro....It shows the welcome screen and
> disappears. If i try to directly open my project file....then to same thing
> it shows the welcome screen of foxpro and gets disappear.

So, it's not the infamous FPW "fast CPU" / divide-by-zero issue, right?

I believe the "FoxPro for Windows 2.x runtime stops running w/o error on
WinNT/W2k/XP" issue might be caused by the "NT Virtual DOS Machine"
NTVDM, respectivly wowexec.exe, on some PCs thinking the foxw*.esl runtime
is doing something illegal (most likely regarding memory managment).
Personally, I never saw the effect you described myself but got a customer's
report back in ~1996, and saw others every other year here in the NGs.
So I think it's an old one and that it seems to be very rare - even back then
only a very few people reported it.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...mages&lr=&hl=en

In three cases at least it did help to reinstall Windows on the same hardware.
My guess is that other 16bit runtimes might be affected as well, so maybe
you'll get some feedback in Windows newsgroups, too.
(the foxw2*.esl runtime was written in C using the Watcom compiler, AFAIK)
Will you post back if you find a solution?

hth
-Stefan

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