i need to run cobol , ws and other dos base (16 bit applications on windows 2000/xp ), but i am not able to run , its giving stack overflow like errors. what i have to do to resolve this ... thanks for ur time

There is no MS-DOS in the NT family of O/Ses, that is the problem. http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Documents/Book.cfm?DocumentID=226 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;103656 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314495 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314452

Hi hiho, Yeah, but many DOS apps run on NT. Borland compilers, dBaseIII+, you name it. I'm not sure what this means: "overflow like errors" M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

"stack overflow like errors" Usually memory configuration?? Point taken M2GO..........

Hi hiho, IIRR, when I did something goofy in a BAT in w2k CMD, the error was ~out of stack...~ I wonder if the OP is running a cobol compiler, or running a badly written program written in cobol. Any program which goes "out of bounds" will run out of stack space. The good thing about NT is that NT usually stops it, whereas DOS falls over dead. As in "stack overflow system halted" IIRR M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.