Re: Rebuild under Vista

foodman wrote:
Hellough:

I upgraded to Vista a few months ago and was happy to see that my
ancient 16-bit MicroFocus-SP2 software runs as happily as it did under
all the prior versions of Windows.

I seldom use Rebuild since I rarely have problems with files.
However,
I recently ran Rebuild (at the command prompt) and got "not a valid
win32 application". My software and the compiler work perfectly.

Strangely, If I make a shortcut to run Rebuild (with file name
specified)
it works perfectly.

Any ideas?

By the way, Murkosoft has not given up on DOS. I noticed that there
are new commands in the Vista version. One of which is ROBOCOPY,
(Robust Copy). I think this was in other versions of Windows.

Tony Dilworth

I am hoping to stay on XP for as long as possible. I've heard bad things about DRM bloat in Vista.

In XP I am accustomed to using CMD.EXE for the command-line window. I found that the old Realia COBOL educational compiler blows up if run in a CMD.EXE window. But XP still has COMMAND.COM, and the 1990 Realia compiler runs fine in COMMAND.COM. The generated executables run file in either CMD.EXE or COMMAND.COM.

I have been using ROBOCOPY for backups for the last 2 or 3 years, but it was not part of Windows. ROBOCOPY is free, but I had to download a Microsoft SDK in order to get it. If ROBOCOPY is included in Vista, that's a plus.


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