DOS APL Under Windows XP?

I've been happily running a bunch of DOS APL's (APL+DOS, APL+PC, APLSE)
under Windows NT for years. I also run the same programs using the same
shortcuts under Windows 2000. I just got my first laptop, and it's got
XP on it. I tried copying over the shortcuts (*.PIF's) from my NT
machine, but they don't seem to work. There were a number of internal
settings I had to mess with to get them working under NT, but I don't
recall why I did everything that's in them.

I'm going to check the PIF's on my Win2K machine tomorrow at work, but
I'd love to hear if anyone has worked this out (and how).

Thanks!

Doug White

I've got APLPlus demo, TryAPL2, APLISW all running under XP in fullscreen
dos (command prompt) windows. I also have a quite charming interpreter
from England called IAPL running on W2000 but it stack crashes on XP at
startup, even if I select W95 compatiblity mode.

I start them directly from a dos box rather than from a PIF.

I think I got the information on how to run them from various postings that
you made in
the past which turned out to be real helpful.

I never was able to get print working on any of them, which is OK as I use
them mainly for learning or else trying out some old workspaces.
I also was never able to get the APLPlus demo virtual workspace setting to
work in order to increase the WS size - I can't even load the Toronto
toolkit with getting the dreaded WS Full message.

I now know that none of them work properly if unless the font selection of
the DOS window is set to RASTER.

One other thing I'd love to do is run any of them, or even J, from inside
an editor such as emacs or xemacs but alas the cygwin1.dll apparently cannot
yet handle this daunting task (pun intended).

Jim Pannozzi

"Doug White" <gwhite@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:4091accd$0$28896$61fed72c@news.rcn.com...
> I've been happily running a bunch of DOS APL's (APL+DOS, APL+PC, APLSE)
> under Windows NT for years. I also run the same programs using the same
> shortcuts under Windows 2000. I just got my first laptop, and it's got
> XP on it. I tried copying over the shortcuts (*.PIF's) from my NT
> machine, but they don't seem to work. There were a number of internal
> settings I had to mess with to get them working under NT, but I don't
> recall why I did everything that's in them.
>
> I'm going to check the PIF's on my Win2K machine tomorrow at work, but
> I'd love to hear if anyone has worked this out (and how).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Doug White
>
>

gwhite@alum.mit.edu (Doug White) wrote in message news:<4091accd$0$28896$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>...
> I've been happily running a bunch of DOS APL's (APL+DOS, APL+PC, APLSE)
> under Windows NT for years.
....

> I just got my first laptop, and it's got
> XP on it. I tried copying over the shortcuts (*.PIF's) from my NT
> machine, but they don't seem to work.

I would try using setting properties and use compatibiliy mode for W95
and not the NT PIFs use .BAT or create shortcuts and set compatibility
on them - it is better and easier not to mix in NT style of handling
DOS in XP