dBase Utility

Hi! I am not going to make ActiveX control. You probably don't need it. In Russian schools we learn programming in Turbo Pascal, and faced 64-bit incompatibility issues several years before. This resulted in migration to Delphi/FPC/Ada, creation of Pascal ABC; and in my case proper wrapping of Turbo Pascal into DOSBox so you can just click shortcut, and it will launch TP inside DOSBox: [login to view URL] I can wrap your utility into DOSBox in a similar manner. There will be a batch file that launches DOSBox with your tool inside. Complications may arise if file names are long (more than 8.3) or something like that.

Hi! I have a lot experience in DOS apps conversion to modern operating systems, but in your case I suggest different solution: use any open-source dos box emulating virtual machines with some code modifications to support data files input and output and additional command-line or ActiveX interface to support your needs. This way give us a little bit less performance in data files processing, but ensure normal work of original algorithm - it works for years in existing exe file and already tested. Trying to decompile exe, restore original algorithm and recode it on modern language possible, but take a lot of time, cost much more than you expects and take a relatively long time to test and find all bugs appears due to decompilation nuances. Fell free to ask any questions. I'm always open for discussion.

Do you have the source code of utility? What language was used for creating the utility? Why do you want to use ActiveX ?

hi i have experience of this kind job. Regards. .