First post, by workerant
For most of the day now, I've been trying to install a custom-made point-of-sale program built approximately 20 years ago. I've been trying to build it off two floppy disks. I've tried using physical disks with an external floppy drive, a virtual floppy drive, and simply putting all the files in both disks in a plain old directory.
I'm trying to install the program to [u]q:\[/u], which in real life is c:\cashbox.
Installing from floppy drives:
[code]
mount a a:\ -t floppy
mount q c:\cashbox
a:
install a q cashbox
[/code]
This produces, varyingly, a prompt of "insufficient parameters" and a second prompt to insert disk 2, which repeats itself even if I insert the disk, until I quit trying, or a warning that "install" is an invalid command. Personally, I didn't think this method would work anyways. "install a c cash" was a syntax prompt given by DOSbox.
Dumping all the floppy drive files into one directory:
[code]
mount q c:\cashbox
cashprog.exe
cashdata.exe
cashfils.exe
cash.exe
[/code]
After typing in cash.exe, DOSbox stops returning a command prompt. The status bar at the top says Program: CASH. However, no program appears. Is my POS software simply incompatible with the program?
I'm including a copy of the floppy drives, if anyone feels safe running them and thinks they can help me out by it I'd really appreciate it.
