Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
running a DOS program with command line
Name: cscs Date: January 15, 2002 at 11:58:02 Pacific
Comment:
Hello.
I'm trying to run a DOS program in XP with command line options.
When I goto the program tab of the exe's properties dialog, i input the command line options i want into the 'cmd line' field as such: "c:\program files\app\app.exe -s20" . however, when the app runs, it runs as if the command line options weren't called.
Is there any way I can do this? Am I putting the options in the wrong place?
Summary: cmd.exe is a rudimentary dos emulator. It doesn't provide all of the commands that were previously available. It's only there so you have dos-looking ability to move files, run commands, etc... Did ...
Summary: First of all Windows XP has a builtin powerful emulator (NTVDM) to run legacy DOS programs from command prompt or a shortcut. So it is not true Win XP can't absolutely run DOS applications directly. ...
Summary: You can also find the dos mouse driver and extract it to a directory of the root drive (c:\Mouse) then manually edit the config.sys and autoexec.bat file to load the driver. When you run your dos prog...
