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Help with starting my program in DOSbox

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First post, by mirzaz

Posted on 2010-02-05, 06:48

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Hi everybody!

Hope you will fint time to read this and help me.

I work with one program which is DOS based. I have aplication with .exe and files with .lnd extension. Normally in Win95 I doubleclick on file with .lnd extension and it starts in my app.

When tryed to start .lnd file from command line in DOSbox, I get message that xxxxxx.lnd is "invalid command bla-bla...".

How to start this program in DOSbox? 😕

Hope you understand my problem and you can help me with this.

Best regards
MirzaZ

MirzaZ

Reply 1 of 7, by wd

Posted on 2010-02-05, 07:26

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I work with one program which is DOS based.

Is it a dos program or not?

Reply 2 of 7, by mirzaz

Posted on 2010-02-05, 13:43

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Yes it is DOS program.

Sorry, I tryed to sound smart there 😁

MirzaZ

Reply 3 of 7, by wd

Posted on 2010-02-05, 13:46

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If you are sure it's a dos executable, then just run it like any program in dosbox (that is the .exe, not the .lnd whatever that is).

Reply 4 of 7, by Kippesoep

Posted on 2010-02-05, 13:56

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Also, the .LND file is probably passed as a parameter. So rather than start FOO.EXE with BAR.LND by double-clicking on the BAR.LND file, you'd type "FOO BAR.LND" on the DOS prompt. (That is what Windows most likely does internally when you double-click on the .LND file).

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