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running Dos program under win 98
Name: carlos Date: October 5, 2003 at 11:14:28 Pacific OS: win98SE CPU/Ram: 128
Comment:
Try to run an old DOS program under win 98SE but I get is an error message: runtime error 200 at----any ideas? I could run it nice in Win 95
Name: Petit Jean Date: October 5, 2003 at 11:59:18 Pacific
Reply:
There is a conflict at boot time trying to run this dos program.Try with a boot disk. http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71.htm or http://www.bootdisk.com Good luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: RichGu Date: October 5, 2003 at 13:41:07 Pacific
Reply:
Good advice Petit Jean, many DOS programs need to run in full DOS mode. (not within Windows)
Richard
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Response Number 3
Name: carlos Date: October 6, 2003 at 08:37:21 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the advice. wil try
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Response Number 4
Name: Don Miller Date: October 6, 2003 at 10:13:23 Pacific
Reply:
I always have an MS-DOS boot diskette that is designed to run older programs that need to run outside Windows. It's CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT load all the support items needed for this: CONFIG.SYS: DEVICE=a:\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=A:\EMM386.exe /AUTO DOS=HIGH,UMB
* any other device setting needed (CD-ROM driver, etc.)
AUTOEXEC.BAT: * any SET statments MSCDEX for CD-ROM (get it off a Windows boot disk.
Also, on a hard disk that need to run MS-DOS, I keep a folder that contains just the DOS programs and set a path statement to it AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Just DON'T use Windows' Long Filenames when creating DOS support.
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