DOS

[sunny]

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Hi,
i have found that i can't run dos applications on my xp pc, and command
prompt doesn't work to run them, is there a way to do this?

Cheers

 

[Guest]

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sunny wrote:

> Hi,
> i have found that i can't run dos applications on my xp pc, and command
> prompt doesn't work to run them, is there a way to do this?
>
> Cheers
>
The closest thing you are going to get to DOS is to go to
Start>run>cmd

gls858

 

[Guest]

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gls858 wrote:

> sunny wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> i have found that i can't run dos applications on my xp pc, and
>> command prompt doesn't work to run them, is there a way to do this?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
> The closest thing you are going to get to DOS is to go to
> Start>run>cmd
>
> gls858
I didn't read that very close I see now that you said the command
prompt doesn't work. You might be out of luck. XP doe not include DOS.

gls858

 

[Guest]

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"sunny" <sunny@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in news:41995AB3-9540-460C-994C-8D46B96CC07A@microsoft.com:
> Hi,
> i have found that i can't run dos applications on my xp pc, and
> command prompt doesn't work to run them, is there a way to do this?
>
> Cheers

If your DOS application requires direct access to hardware, it will not
run under an NT-based version of Windows. You don't mention your DOS
applications so no one that is also familiar with it can help you.

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[Guest]

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http://www.dosgames.com/xphints.php

 

[billy]

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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:47:36 -0500, "Vanguardx" <see_signature> wrote:

>"sunny" <sunny@discussions.microsoft.com>
>wrote in news:41995AB3-9540-460C-994C-8D46B96CC07A@microsoft.com:
>> Hi,
>> i have found that i can't run dos applications on my xp pc, and
>> command prompt doesn't work to run them, is there a way to do this?
>>
>> Cheers
>
>If your DOS application requires direct access to hardware, it will not
>run under an NT-based version of Windows. You don't mention your DOS
>applications so no one that is also familiar with it can help you.

I find that I don't have any problems running any dos app
you can run either Command or CMD as a Windows process -- not as a DOS
process. also if you use fat32, you can have a boot floppy that has
command/config.sys to run as a dos process on your cpu, but the
downside of it is that you typically will screw up all your lfn's
unless you only use / process 8/3 filenames
if you have an icon n the desktop and look at the properties you can
actually fool the process into thinking that it is running under dos
or win95 etc, but I do find I tend to screw up any structure that is a
long filename. if they are only 8x3 no problem.

Billy, N5WE
Mississippi

 

[Guest]

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Make sure that autoexec.nt and config.nt are in either the \windows\system32
or \winnt\system32 directory. The upgrade puts them in the ..\repair
directory
"sunny" <sunny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> i have found that i can't run dos applications on my xp pc, and command
> prompt doesn't work to run them, is there a way to do this?
>
> Cheers
>
>