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?

Is it a 64-bit version of Vista? The 64-bit Vista doesn't support 16-bit Windows applications.

Since a shortcut works, though, it's strange that it doesn't work under a command prompt. Maybe the shortcut looks at the executable, and sets a "compatibility mode" for it. Inspect the properties of the shortcut, and see if any of those are set. If so, you can make a shortcut to cmd.exe with those same compatibilities set, and you should be good to go.


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