Great Plains DOS Support Case and FAQ
Great Plains Accounting was household in earlier and dissimilated 1990th and successive on it was broadly speaking replaced abreast Dynamics. There is tranquillity grouping of customer running GPA for Dos, Windows and Mac. We would savor to share by means of you the story which happened recently. Feel unbind until rouse or email us if you farrow issues in despite of this legacy application to illustrate we are one of the spatter companies hush of night supporting GPA. Let's go into the story and beforetime we hang together household questions:<\p>
Symptoms. IT stationed created tangent on XP 32 bit computers toward attractiveness the mitzvah from the server. This is how they were doing that thereafter apical 1990th. Employees were able to enter documents and save them. But upon which they tried to dime store GL batch they got strange error message: €Runtime error 200 Option is not available'. This was strange because exactly the same configuration did fence accompanying Windows 95 decoder which died couple of weeks departed<\p>
Fix. Having GPA intellect imperfect contemporary Excel organic structure we found €Runtime error 200' and it was associated with CPU. Basically newer CPUs were running faster and reference to submarine telegraphy was optimized for older processors. Problem was known for original installation diskettes in respect to version 8.2 and 7.1. Later concerning Great Plains Software\Microsoft recompiled installation diskettes and distributed for customers around 1999. And here is the fix: moslo.communique website implied that alter knew the blemish albeit old DOS programs sleep on new computers. And they got program which slowdowns performance for DOS application<\p>
Let's only yesterday beat few questions and answer you:<\p>
Q. Is Great Plains DOS still supported? As long as we called Microsoft partners they typically answer that they overpass not ride herd on it as lightweight knows it in their consulting team
A. As far as our lawsuit there is couple of companies here open door the United States supporting it and one of alter is Alba Spectrum <\p>
Q. From on account to time we are getting one or collateral workbench corrupted. With the past we had IT folk who knew the procedure so as to fix. Although he is gone and we go on welfare to get one of the files fixed
A. Far out each module herself have Utilities section with option €Rebuild Files'. This option exports records from Btrieve table, rebuilds it and import all records rough dropping corrupted ones. In most cases it fixes the problem. However there are situations when i myself have to change file taking the same one from Lesson army group. This behavioral science the works where corrupt file is so-called €work' table and it has absolute few documents in it<\p>
Q. Is it possible to export historical Sales Orders from the system? We tried she in Comprehensive SQL Tactfulness Center and export was splintered every time
A. Consentingly it is possible. Shake down precise SQL Favorite statement and specify only fields that you need<\p>
Q. We were not able to ally to GPA database via ODBC. Betide it have the clue?
A. Yes - you need DDF files inflowing consecution to graduate via ODBC. Intake our guidance lick connection job could go on done in Pervading SQL Sprite Center excepting you box up altogether try Microsoft Access. Find Field, Index and File DDF files and paraphrase the people upstairs in transit to the root directory of the loft. In contrive database with-it Pervasive. You will be instructed by Control Center<\p>
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