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Message   Steve Winn    Steve Winn   Updated: Vista Information   December 12, 2007
 1:00 PM  

Re: Updated: Vista Information

> Re: Requests
>
> >   will it work with windows vista?
> > Dark Angel
>
> As a follow up on this...
>
> Roger has been using Vista for a while and has informed me of problems from
> time to time. I've fixed the issues I could but we found out further
> information yesterday.
>
> The main issue is that Vista's command.com is broken. This will affect all DO
> programs that has to shell to perform specific tasks. This is evident in
> vnet.exe which will not process packets. Also affected are scripts and functi
> blocks.
>
> You can see for yourself the issue:
> In a command prompt, type this: "command.com /c dir"
>
> You'll notice that it does not list any directory names or files. You can see
> how this affects DOS programs by trying something like "command.com /c c
> file1.txt file2.txt"
>
> That will result in a file not found error.
>
> So the issue is not VADV, it is a MS problem. Hopefully SP1 will fix this.

Updated: Vista SP1 does resolve this issue. From my tests it appears that VADV
works just like it does on XP now which should be 100% compatibility.

Steve


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