[Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Crashes

[Frank Stearns]

Older versions of FM sometimes seem unhappy running directly in a 
newer OS.

Try VirtualBox from Oracle. It's free; you can set up a virtual XP 
environment under Win 7 or Win 10, install FM in that XP world, and 
away you go, often faster and without those quirks compared to 
running the older FM natively. (I've found the emulator offering from 
Microsoft to be lacking and unreliable. What a surprise.)

With a few configuration tweaks, the virtual environment can r/w 
"real" disk locations outside the environment, you can copy and paste 
(control-C/V) to and from apps inside and outside the virtual 
environment, and you can send/receive from your USB devices, such as 
printers, keyboards, mice.

Two caveats: You'll need original XP disks to do the install; and so 
far there is no support for firewire devices.

Overall a headache saver and in our case, we have a 25 year-old custom 
database that's impossible to run in Win7 but works just fine in 
Virtualbox. A HUGE time saver and business saver, actually -- we were 
unable to rewrite that db for a newer OS. And oh, btw, FM7.x runs 
nicely in that environment as well. :)

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