[OT] Win2k3 + DOS = need linux

[James Sissel]

>I have a customer that is using a DOS application which
>uses an old version of Foxpro for its database.  I recently set up a
>Windows 2k3 server and a VPN tunnel to their remote site.  I have
>them set up to use terminal services from the remote to
>the main and run the DOS app on the server.  I have since found
>out that you can't run a DOS window full screen in a terminal
>services session.  Though you can run it in a window but one
>terminal services session, running a DOS app, eats 98% of the
>CPU and I need to run 2 of these sessions.  So, I know bandwidth
>isn't the problem its Windows server (go figure )

First question, why are you running FoxPro on the server?  Run it on the
workstation and leave the data on the server.

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