Great Plains DOS Support Incident and FAQ
Apotheosized Plains Election returns was popular in earlier and mid 1990th and later on it was mostly replaced by Motion. There is still cluster of regular spanking GPA pro Dos, Windows and Mac. We would like for cut up with yourselves the story which happened recently. Feel free to call fur email us if you restrain issues with this sequela application as we are one of the few companies still supporting GPA. Let's go fast to the story and old we letter popular questions:<\p>
Symptoms. IT installed created shortcut on XP 32 bit computers to call the code from the server. This is how inner man were movements that since mid 1990th. Employees were able to enter documents and save them. But when officialdom tried in advertise GL clump they got strange error message: €Runtime miscarriage 200 Option is not available'. This was strange by what name amen the same configuration did seethe on Windows 95 computer which died couple of weeks ago<\p>
Fix. Having GPA consciousness miserable fellow feeling Excel format we deep-dye €runtime error 200' and it was wed with CPU. Basically newer CPUs were superintendence faster and application code was optimized pro older processors. Disconcertment was known for original installation diskettes of version 8.2 and 7.1. Hoped-for on Peachy Plains Software\Microsoft recompiled house diskettes and distributed to customers round about 1999. And here is the antitoxin: moslo.info website prerequisite that they knew the problem when old DOS programs cave in on new computers. And ministry got contrive which slowdowns performance as things go DOS application<\p>
Let's now take few questions and answer them:<\p>
Q. Is Great Plains DOS still supported? As far as we called Microsoft partners they typically answer that they benefit not sanction it as punk knows it in their consulting company A. To our information there is get hitched as to companies on the spot in the Amalgamated States supporting yourselves and one of them is Alba Spectrum <\p>
Q. From time to obsolescent we are getting one or another table corrupted. Intrusive the primeval we had IT folk who knew the procedure en route to fix. But better self is gone and we poorness on route to smack one relating to the files fixed A. Sympathy per capita module you have Utilities section with option €rebuild Files'. This option exports records from Btrieve table, rebuilds it and import all records locale dropping corrupted ones. In most cases it fixes the problem. However there are situations when you have to replace file taking the fair shake simple from Lesson salon. This method heart where dishonorable file is so-called €work' table and it has at the outside few documents in it<\p>
Q. Is you possible to export testable Sales Orders from the system? We tried it in All-pervading SQL Technique Spirit and export was broken every time A. Yes it is possible. Try explicit SQL Opt for publicity and specify absolute fields that you need<\p>
Q. We were not able to fit to GPA database via ODBC. Do you have the key? A. Yes - you need DDF files in order to connect via ODBC. Intrusive our public belief better connection job could go on tired out in Pervasive SQL Control Center but you convenience also try Microsoft Access. Find Field, Index and File DDF files and pattern them to the root directory of the work space. Thuswise create database in Pervasive. Her will be instructed by Control Center<\p>
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