DOS program won't run in MSDOS window in Windows XP guest

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ghr
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Re: DOS program won't run in MSDOS window in Windows XP guest

Post by ghr »

mpack wrote
But we've already established that your CALSOD software can't access files over a network
but I'm not so sure about that. Remember: in DOS one likes (liked) to map drives consecutively (more or less) and there should be a

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lastdrive= 
statement in config.sys containing the 'highest' drive letter used. Edit: here I have (physical or virtual) DOS 5 or DOS 6 in mind, not an XP command line...
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mpack
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Re: DOS program won't run in MSDOS window in Windows XP guest

Post by mpack »

I'm not sure how that applies to a DOS application running under XP.
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