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On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 22:37:17 +0100
pinnerite <
pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:43:01 -0700
> Mike Easter <
MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:
>
> > pinnerite wrote:
> > > I need to use a Windows bookkeeping program called Sage.
> > > The version I have is installed on Windows XP, a VBox VM.
> >
> > Why do you choose/want to use W XP VM w/ Sage? I see its (current)
> > requirements are W8.1 or higher.
> >
> > Is this about a personal pref for the XP environment or something else?
> >
> > It looks like Sage describes its `versions` as Sage 50 followed by the
> > year from 2014 to the present. Such as Sage 50 2014 support XP.
> >
> > A site `allegedly` offers downloads of older versions but actually doesn`t.
> >
https://www.accountspro.co/sage/sage-50-downloads.html#
> >
> > --
> > Mike Easter
>
> I don`t what just happened but when I tried to map a samba share from
> XP for the umptenth time, it showed the workgoup and I was able to
> complete the mapping.
>
> I tried the remaining shares.They were slow but there were no
error/rejections.
> I had been trying to do this for weeks!
>
> As for for XP itself. My homegrown 16-bit programs will not run
on anything above XP and conversion to Linux compatible versions hit a
brick wall when I needed to replace two commercial libraries in order to
print forms with selected tyopefaces.
>
> My cutsheet scanner runs best under XP, there is no driver for
Windows 10 which I need for my professional work - accountancy and
taxation. It does run under xsane but you have to press Enter for every
sheet. Too slow.
>
> So, it`s a mix but I get by. It so happens that I prefer
Microsoft Office to Libreoffice. I have two versions. One running under XP
(Office 2000) and another under Windows 10 (Office 2003). I prefer the
earlier one but it has a bug that was never fixed. In the footer if I
set page n of x pages, everything prints as page n of n pages.
> If it is important I can reboot into Win 10 to print.
>
> I have never tried Office under wine but I will try that once
I retire from active practise. Hopefully before the end of next March.
>
> So, it looks like Samba is fine!
>
> Sorry to have troubled you.
>
> Alan
>
> --
> Linux Mint 21.1 kernel version 5.15.0-84-generic Cinnamon 5.6.8
> AMD Phenom II x4 955 CPU 16Gb Dram 2TB Barracuda
This morning after booting up Linux.then VBox and XP, I found I
was back to square one.
XP seemed to find the Workgroup but could go no further.
Alan
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