How to make FOX PRO 2.6 programs to work on Windows or Windows Vista 64-bit ?

Does your program not working on Windows Vista 64 bit or other version ? These are some guided steps for you to follow in order to make your program work:

1. Download the latest version of DOSBox from here, a DOS emulator for 16-bit program to work on 32/64 bit windows;

2. Pass parameters to DOSBox emulator in order to optimize your work.

For Fox Pro 2.6 to work on Windows Vista 64 bit or any other version of Windows in which Fox Pro does not work, I need to use DOSbox to emulate it.

So, I have installed DOS Box into C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.73\. You should know that I will use this writing C:\Program Files as C:\Progra~1\ to eliminate the space.

I have installed Fox Pro 2.6 in c:\fpd26.

For my program contapri.bat (which will start Contapri.prg using Fox pro 2.6) to work I need to mount the path where my fox pro 2.6 resides and then start the batch file. So in other words this is the line:

C:\Progra~1\DOSBox-0.73\dosbox -c “mount j c:\fpd26″ -c “j:\contapri.bat”

So maybe you want this line into other file: start_contapri.bat. When executing start_contapri.bat the OS will execute the line above by passing those parameters for the dosbox to emulate it, in thiscase fox pro 2.6.

This is how to run a Fox PRO 2.6  .PRG file in Windows Vista 64 bit or any other version of windows in which fox pro does not run.

sources: google and vogons