due to hardware failure I had to reinstall software. My accounting software uses Pervasive SQL V8 and is located locally on my hard drive. I am trying to access our point of sale software that uses Btrieve. This software is located on a server. The point of sale will not launch. I have contacted the accounting software provider but the version is no longer supported. We had them working prior to the crash. Any ideas?

A few questions:
- What version of Btrieve is on the server?
- What's the actual error when launching the point of sale software?
- Are you trying to launch both apps at the same time? If so, does it matter what order you load the applications?

I was unable to locate the information for the version of Btrieve on the server. The pos software gives me an echo off message then pulsing cursor. I haven't found any situation that allows me to launch the pos.

Is the POS software DOS based?
Do you launch the POS software using a batch file? If so, post it.
What's the exact version of PSQL installed on the workstation?

Any Suggestions? I'm may have to change software if I can't get this resolved soon.

Without knowing what's actually "hanging", it's going to be hard to give any suggestions. My guess would be that the POS system has a misconfiguration. Maybe it can't find a config file or a data file.