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FoxPro 2.5 on Windows XP Machine

Asked by: ComputerWiz

I have a FoxPro 2.5 application that was running on a Windows 98 desktop.  I recently bought an XP Home edition desktop and installed FoxPro 2.5 on it but when I tried to execute FoxPro it gave me a "Divide by Zero or Overflow Error" message.  While doing the research online, it said to install updates and patches.  I did and that fix that error.  

On my old Win98 machine, I used to click on the FoxPro 2.5 icon and my application would start running immediately.  Now, when I open FoxPro 2.5, I simply get a blank screen.  Do I have to recompile the application?  What are the components that I need to include to run the database?

Jonathan Lanz

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2003-11-20 at 10:12:57ID20804241
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by: CarlWarnerPosted on 2003-11-20 at 10:26:51ID: 9789573

The "Divide by Zero" error is typical for an old Fox version running on a faster, newer PC.  There is a patch for that is officially supported by MS and wants you to be at version 2.6a before you apply the patch.  Since you don't have 2.6 or 2.6a, I'm not sure how you're going to get there from version 2.5.

But, here's the references on what is causing your problems:

PATCH: FoxPro 2.6a Patch Files for FoxPro 2.6
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q102/8/93.asp&NoWebContent=1

PATCH: Patch_26.exe Fixes Divide by Zero Error on Fast Computers
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q240/9/82.asp&NoWebContent=1

 

by: CarlWarnerPosted on 2003-11-20 at 10:30:06ID: 9789600

 

by: ComputerWizPosted on 2003-11-20 at 10:31:43ID: 9789607

Carl, thanks for the links... those are the ones that I applied to FoxPro 2.5 and it seems to be working okay.  I still have the issue of not being able to run the application.  Can you help?

Jonathan

 

by: CarlWarnerPosted on 2003-11-20 at 10:34:15ID: 9789619

Once you get beyond the "Divide by Zero" error, you also may have to edit the Config.nt file in the System32 of the main Windows folder on the XP PC.  You will have to be sure you have enough file handles addressed as we always had to do for 16-bit apps, like FoxPro 2.5/2.6.  The default may be FILES=40 or FILES=20 in there.  Just hike up the number accordingly to allow lots of tables, index files, etc. to be opened at one time in a FoxPro session.  I use FILES=99, but others use numbers in the hundreds.  Whatever works for you.

 

by: CarlWarnerPosted on 2003-11-20 at 10:36:22ID: 9789631

If you still have the "Divide by Zero" error after getting updated as it seems you think you did, then the update process did not work correctly.  It does work, because I had to do it for an older app for someone back in 2000.

 

by: ComputerWizPosted on 2003-11-20 at 10:45:23ID: 9789680

I'm not getting the "Divide by Zero" error any more.  I did change the config.net to show 40 but I just bumped it up to 99.

Now I just need help running the application

Jonathan

 

by: CarlWarnerPosted on 2003-11-20 at 10:48:13ID: 9789702

<< Now I just need help running the application >>

If you're not getting the "Divide by Zero" error any longer, what message or symptom are you now getting when you are attempting to run an application?

 

by: ComputerWizPosted on 2003-11-20 at 10:52:16ID: 9789736

I go to "Run==>Application", the open file dialog box comes up and I pick Main.fxp and click run.  I get an error that says "C:\data\fox\main.fxp is not an object file"

Jonathan

 

by: CarlWarnerPosted on 2003-11-20 at 10:59:36ID: 9789775

OK.  Do you have the main.prg file available?  Just running that inside of FoxPro will force a recompile on the fly if the main.fxp is out of the way (deleted or renamed).  Evidently, it wants a new compile.

 

by: ComputerWizPosted on 2003-11-20 at 11:59:16ID: 9790116

actually, it's a file called startup.prg, I run it but I get lots of compile errors for variables missing.

AGUHWHGEHWPOIHJEN@!#$$#@%#$%#$^.... this is going to be fun.

jpl

 

by: CarlWarnerPosted on 2003-11-20 at 12:51:18ID: 9790473

Keep in mind, too, that those variables could be externally referenced in FLL calls or created through a call to a prg or gathered in from a .mem file.  If the compiler can't find them, it squawks but at runtime they very well could be in effect.

 

by: ComputerWizPosted on 2003-11-20 at 13:27:40ID: 9790777

Thanks!  I got it... :-)

jpl

 

by: ranga_kartikPosted on 2010-10-09 at 00:29:24ID: 33865928

hello ,

i have faced the same divide by zero error when running foxpro 2.6 in windows xp professional SP 2.
For that i have donwloaded the path_26.exe from those links. after extraction, i found 2 files one path26.exe and readme.txt

as per the text instructions and found the mentioned errors in braces. Since i encountered these errors i dint go ahead executing other commands. Please help me to solve this.

 CD C:\FPW26
      ATTRIB -r FOXPROW.EXE  ( ran successfully since no message is printed )
      ATTRIB -r FOXW2600.ESL  ( cannot find the esl file )
      PATCH26 FOXPROW.EXE  ( PATCH26: error : incorrect FoxPro 2.6a file size : C:\FPW26\foxprow.exe )

      PATCH26 FOXW2600.ESL
      ATTRIB +r FOXPROW.EXE
      ATTRIB +r FOXW2600.ESL


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