> From: Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I'm rarely a defender of Microsoft, but I think they do a pretty good job of > >carrying legacy interfaces forward. > > You missed the 'smiley' emoticon. > Because, I'm sure you were joking! > > The conversion to Microsoft Office invalidated years of Macros I had written. > DOS programmes, and old windows programmes, I cannot get working on XP. > I tried every setting and even talking to mickey-soft. > Their response was: "Tough Luck"!
At a previous job I had a bunch of DOS .bat files that were cobbled together to facilitate an automated file transfer system - Mainframe to Network to propietary funky customer transfer protocol. I had always meant to write it into something more robust, but hey, it worked and never caused any problems, and was terribly simple for operators to troubleshoot in case of transmission problems or whatnot. Wouldn't you know, .bat files from NT would not work quite the same (or at all, in some cases) on W2K. I actually converted the .bat files just to see what the heck they had broke. And don't you know that those same .bat's would not run on XP without modfications, of W2K3 for that matter. All this over the course of a few meager years (yes, we stretched the window on NT for a couple of reasons having to do with being tied to the DOMAIN model, yet another problem.) In the meantime, we still had EXEC2 that was twenty years old running on VM without issue that we hadn't gotten around to (or had a reason to) convert to REXX. This was code brought forward from VM/SP to VM/ESA all the way to z/VSE without change. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
