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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