Re: running DOS programs - failure

"indigo" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> anon wrote:
>> Couldn't it have been modified for Basic (there seems to be little
>> difference [I/O, maybe nested loops]) easier than essentially
>> rewriting in C++?
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> Dunno, the software guy was given his choice on what language to port it 
> too
> and that's what he picked. I do have another program written in basic,
> haven't tried to run it on XP so I don't know if it'll work or not.
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Gees, I had not thought of that - I just tested my old basic program and it 
worked perfectly! Thank goodness.

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>> XP's lack of DOS is sc****ing up some of my legacy programs - they
>> won't run in XPs emulation mode.
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> Welcome to my world!
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