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First post, by abyss

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I have lotus agenda 2.0 which is a dos program but is not a game. I only have a pif file for it i have no exe,batch or com files for the file. Is their a way to make a batch file and if so how do i make 1 as i need to make a batch fille of the lotus program as dosbox doesn't support pif files.

Reply 2 of 4, by abyss

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There are 2 agenda executable files 1 is a pif and 1 is a file that is not a exe,com or batch or pif. I have seen that kind of file before though. It is often given to information files that are not text. I am pretty sure i ran this thing before on an older computer. I don't have dos on my machine.

As i don't really like to give direct links go to wikipedia and search lotus agenda and 1 of the links will bring you to a freeware download of lotus agenda 2.0. Someone else try to get it to run and if someone gets it running tell me what you did as i cannot run this thing with dosbox as it only supports exe,com and batch files. You can also download it at classicgaming.com/ascii Which acording to the site owner only puts freeware orshareware games on the site. They have zork but that was freeware but is now not freeware i guess the site owner does not know about that.

Reply 3 of 4, by Dominus

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Pif files are shortcuts to dos programs in Windows there is no way around it.

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Reply 4 of 4, by wd

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Oh well you shouldn't download the pif+icon file, but the complete diskset.
And you're quite right, that .ico is no executable...

The program seems official freeware so no problems with links and stuff: