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Microsoft FoxPro can run as an MS-DOS application with Microsoft Windows version 3.0 or 3.1. For best results, run FoxPro in standard mode and Windows in 386 enhanced mode.
Your machine should have at least 2 megabytes (MB) of LIM 4.0 memory available; additional memory will help to improve performance. Make sure that you have ample hard disk space for the swap file and that you use use a defragmentation utility to reduce the amount of disk activity required to load files.
In 386 enhanced mode, creating a permanent swap file provides much better performance than allowing Windows to create a temporary swap file. This is especially true when only a small amount of memory is available. However, the permanent swap file does consume disk space.
To access FoxPro more easily, create a group and an icon for FoxPro in Windows 3.0 by doing the following:
1. From the File menu, choose New.
2. Select Program Group and choose OK.
3. Complete the Description dialog box and choose OK.
4. With the new group selected, choose New from the File menu.
5. Select Program Item and choose OK.
6. In the Description edit control, enter a title for the icon.
7. Choose the Browse button, then navigate to and select the FoxPro
application. Choose OK.
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In the Command Line edit control, type the fully qualified path
to the FoxPro program.
file" error message is displayed when you are selecting a custom
icon, replace the name of the application in the Change Icon dialog
box with PROGMAN. Then choose View Next until an appropriate icon
is displayed.
NOTE: The Windows 3.1 MORICONS.DLL file contains an icon that may
be suitable for FoxPro.
To access FoxPro more easily in Windows 3.1, edit the PIF File included with Windows to indicate the proper startup and working directory for FoxPro. When you double-click the icon, Windows runs FoxPro in an MS-DOS window.
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Last Reviewed: April 17, 1995