Bob Axtell wrote:

> Herb, I have 3 WinXP's here, and not a ONE can run any of my DOS6
> applications. In fact, it won't even load the 16-bit EXE any more.
> Identify _ONE_ DOS application that runs on WinXP after the ravages of
> the latest XP updates.

There's an edit.com ("MS-DOS Editor, version 2.0.026, (c) Microsoft 1995")
that seems to come with WinXP. I also have still around (don't really know
why) Cedar Island Edit v1.2, (c) Cedar Island Software 1991,1992. I also
have still an old version of PKZIP (2.04g, 02-01-93). I have a Borland
Turbo GREP 5.5 from 1992,1998. There are probably others, especially if I
start digging out old floppies :)

I don't use either regularly (replaced by better alternatives), but they
all seem to run fine. Within their limits, of course -- don't expect
support for LFN or Unicode or other such hypermodern inventions :)

If your WinXP doesn't load any 16bit applications, it may be that you have
a service disabled that's required for that. If I'm not mistaken, 16bit
support is handled by a service that gets loaded on demand. That's why it
usually takes longer to load the first 16bit app -- after that, the service
is already loaded. I don't remember which one that is, though.

Gerhard

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