installing an older program in xp

From: Russell (newsgroup_at_paperdragon.ca)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:38:33 -0700

If the program is trying to access hardware directly,
instead of using OS calls, then it will not work. Windows
XP will not allow programs to directly interact with
devices. A lot of the old DOS programs did access
hardware devices directly.

Likely best thing, if possible and the program provides
for it, would be to load it on to your Win98 machine and
export the data into a text file, or csv, or tab-delimited
format. I do not know what HotLine is, so can not give
any ideas as to what programs that can replace it. If it
is simple data and you can do a csv, or tab delimited
export, you try try importing it into a spread***.

For your second question about Win98 restore, it did not
have one. Restore was first introduced in Win ME.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi I have an old DOS program called Hotline. It is a
>basic data program. I have been using it for yars and
>have a lot of data in this program.. Although I have to
>install this progtam by using DOS and not windows, I had
>always bee successful i putiing it into my newer
>computers, however, i have run into a problem with XP. It
>will not load on this server. I tried using the wizard
>and see if it will read it converting it to win.95 but
>still no good. Any suggestions? I wonder if there is a
>program out there that I can install onto XP and this
>program will read it? Also I am haveing aproblem with my
>windows 98 computer. Does anyone know if there is a
>program that can make Win 98 restore back to an earlier
>date like XP instead of restoring the whole system back
>to it's factory setting?
>
>Your replys will be appreciated.
>
>Ray
>.
>

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