I'll give those a try, thank you guys so much

its a tool library editor for the main portion of the software, and in DOSBox that one part of the software will not run, when i try to launch it i get that error, and the software states "OPEN error : \alphapls\worklib.TL1" and I know that DOSBox is intended for games, not applications, but I …

Agreed, im not sure if the program is trying to create a file with a wildcard? slightly confused myself, like I said, I believe it takes the 2 toollibrary files, makes temporary files for editing purposes, this is where it fails, and then upon exiting the tool editor, it saves the temp files over …

when running a part of the program im running in dosbox, I believe it creates 2 temp files in its directory, and this is failing, this part of the software isn't EXTREMELY necessary, but getting it running would be amazing. the error im getting is warning: file creation failed: c:\alphapls\worklib. …