Hi, I am very frustrated! Simple files like dos files, should be very easy to find on the net, but I cannot find these files to run a dos game, on my windows 95, 98, or anywhere on the net. Can someone please tell me where find these on the net, or email them to me, and I will set them up somewhere for others to dl. thanks!!!!!

If you use Windows 95/98, there is already a dos included. I can't remember exactly where to find the folder. It's somewhere in the WIN folder. Name of the folder is command or something like that. You will find the folder much easier by booting your windows and search for a file e.g. named label.exe. Within this folder, there are all DOS files except HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.exe. These files are located directly in the WIN folder or in WIN\SYSTEM. Copy all files to a separate folder and do your work. You can also take a look at the config.sys and autoexec.bat files. At the end of the autoexec.bat file there's a line that will start windows. You can extent these files, so that you can choose what you want to do, by using a Boot Menu. Assuming, you've copied the DOS files to a folder named C:\DOS. Here is an example for both files: CONFIG.SYS ;------------------------------------------- SWITCHES=/F [Menu] MenuItem=dos,Start DOS MenuItem=windows,Start Windows MenuDefault=windows,30 [Common] [dos] DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.exe noems ; START Use of IDE-CDROM at DOS ; you might have to change the path and driver name for your needs DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM\cdrom.sys /d:mscd001 ; END Use of IDE-CDROM at DOS COUNTRY=049,437,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:256 /P /F FILESHIGH=60 BUFFERSHIGH=30 STACKSHIGH=9,512 FCBSHIGH=1,0 [Common] [windows] DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off FILES=100 BUFFERS=50 [common] ;------------------------------------------- AUTOEXEC.BAT #------------------------------------------- @echo off rem DOS SET-Variablen SET PROMPT=$L$P$G SET DIRCMD=/OGEN /A /P PATH C:\;C:\DOS;C:\CDROM LH C:\DOS\keyb gr,437,C:\DOS\keyboard.sys LH C:\DOS\DOSKEY.COM goto %config% :dos rem Start Use of CDROM at DOS LH C:\DOS\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /m:12 /l:f rem END Use of CDROM at DOS # You may have to copy a DOS Mouse driver to that location by yourself, if needed LH C:\DOS\MOUSE.COM PROMPT $L$P$G LH C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.exe /U goto end :windows LH C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.exe /U C:\WIN\WIN goto end :end #------------------------------------------- Please send a reply, if you solved the problem !!!

The 9X dos commands are found in WINDOWS\COMMAND. SUBST is there but not JOIN or APPEND. They should be available from dos 6.22 which I have. You can add them to the SETVER command (which loads in config.sys) so you won't get an 'incorrect dos version' error.. But exactly what OS are you adding them to? Those generally aren't commands you'd want to run during a windows session. You list your OS as Vista but talk about 95 and 98.

As usual, DIAMOND DAVE hit the nail on the head. Most of the external utils are in the CABs of 9x and on the install disks for 6x~5x. So you need to get down to cases about what OS you going to use. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2