I have an estimating program I want to copy or transfer that is in an old laptop and is in dos.
is there a way to copy this to a cd. the old laptop that currently has the program on had a 3/12 floppy drive.
thank you
Andrew
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There may be some stuff loading in config.sys and autoexec.bat related to the program too. That may not matter if you get it to run with a newer OS but you might want to copy them too, just in case.
Then copy them all to another computer, recreating the directory structure as it was on the laptop. Copy config.sys and autoexec.bat to the folder also; don’t put them in their normal place in the root directory. You don’t want them possibly interfering with booting of the other PC.
Then burn it all to a cd.
building on Daveincaps reply above, it is often forgotten that frequently dos applications were *INSTALLED* and a program to do this came as part of the package,.
It is one thing to copy the data, but can be something very different if copying the application itself.
Thus when copied to a different pc, problems might occur when running. For example when printing or with a different monitor. Even memory size can enter the equation.
If the old laptop only has a floppy dirve, copying can be done using this with PKZIP/PKUNZIP.
Please advise back on progress.
Good Luck – Keep us posted.
this is their website:
www.exdos.com
I hope it helps you.