I heve never used dos before and I made a boot disk in dos because I have a program that needs to run in it. How do I open the program once I start the computer in dos. I'm not too swift yet in computing.

Is the program on a floppy, or on the hard drive?

Well, I answered this before and everybody jumped all over me. I'm REALLY not being sarcastic. Here's the deal. You need to learn some dos commands. Go to a used book store/thrift store/garage/yard sale and find a book on MS DOS, just about any version 5x or newer. OR, get on google and look for things like "dos commands" http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm http://www.easydos.com/dosindex.html http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/tips/doshelp.html http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/tips/doshelp.html I'm not going to bother with any more, you can get THOUSANDS of hits by appending your search words. These will get you started.

You need to type the command that starts the program, usually an executable file (will have .exe or .com extension), but sometimes this is done with a batch file (.bat extension) To see a list of the files, type and enter: dir or dir C: or dir a: The DOS6 help program is a pretty good resource for learning command syntax. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/olddos.exe

Look for the name of the game followed by EXE or BAT. DOOM.exe for example. In the example you type DOOM to get the game to run. ******************************************** : means drive and \ means directory. When you find yourself in DOS and want to orient yourself, find out what is on the drive by typing DIR and pressing enter. With that and three basic commands you can wander around dos long enough to learn it. !. DIR 2. CD 3. A drive letter followed by semicolon as in C: for example. (You go from drive C to the floppy by typing A: and pressing enter.) You use cd to go from C drive to a directory on C for example you might type \DOS and press enter. Then you would DIR and press enter to see all the files in the DOS folder or directory as dos calls them. Look at all the EXE files in DOS. For example MEM.exe is what causes typing MEM and pressing enter to tell you how much memory you have and how it is used. The best way to learn DOS is to wander around and try things.