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?

vanderwallbob (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

That's apparently part of Microsoft 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.

vanderwallbob (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

I need to add that if you go into the FPW26 directory
and click on Foxhelp, the program will come up.

I think you can probably try to bring up any database
and have the program kick in for you while direct
addressing fails.

nonsense (AT) unsettled (DOT) com wrote:
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.

--
Cy Welch
89 Camaro RS 5.0 TBI
98 Passport
03 Malibu

nonsense (AT) unsettled (DOT) com wrote:
FPW that took up lots of processing power which would prevent the error
by eating up a large part of the processing power for a short time.

--
Cy Welch
89 Camaro RS 5.0 TBI
98 Passport
03 Malibu