Experience Have done application programming as well as some installation and administration mostly with MySQL for web servers and site development and also with IMS and DB2 on legacy systems in the past.
Question Good research. Thanks for the tips. I have tried everthing, including DOS emulator modes. I may have no choice but to push the customer into migrating old data to current version of Sage PFW ERP.
Thanks,
TG
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Followup To
Question -
Do you have BTRIEVE data engine tuning experience?
I have a ten year old DOS based accounting package called ¡°Platinum Accounting v4.6¡± which works fine on a V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W WinNT machine, but it is time to migrate to a new PC. While the program does launch on a WinXP Pro system, it crashes everywhere it needs to read/write to a file with BTRIEVE error #81. My guess is that the code executes so fast on newer CPUs that the system never has enough time to write a lock file to disk?
I'm surprised you're being left high and dry like this, especially given the info I saw about at least some limited support being available for this software on the newer Windows OS'.
I would at least contact the co and explain the problem and see what they may be able to suggest, if anything.
