Re: running FoxPro 2.6 in xp professional

nonsense@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> vanderwallbob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> 
>> When opening FoxPro 2.6 for windows in Windows XP Professional I get a
>> system error message "Divide by zero or overflow error".  Will FoxPro
>> run in XP Professional.  Any suggestions?
>>
> 
> That's apparently part of M$ protection scheme to keep
> folks from loading a legitimate backup or copy from
> another system. I have it running on XP Pro just fine
> so long as it is loaded from the original floppies which
> I've not been able to successfully reproduce. I just
> recently bought an unopened complete package on eBay.
> 
Nope, the problem is the initialization routine which sets a variable 
and then decrements it for a specific number of jiffies (OS clock ticks) 
and then divides by the remaining number.  On computers faster than 
about 350Mhz this causes the error.  There is a patch if you can find 
it, that fixes that problem.  There are also a couple of other problems 
that require workarounds for which there is no patch, just the 
requirement to not do certain things.  If your lucky someone in here 
might still have a copy of the patch.

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