Dosbox is for games only and the developers are very outspoken about this. You seem to have found one more reason why non games or even worse, mission critical software, shouldn't be run on dosbox.

But it seems like a lock problem, perhaps another instance of dosbox is still running in a half crashed way hidden and blocking the database.

Sorry, I thought this forum: GAMES/APPS would also support me in solving my problem.
Anyway I was happy to get an answer.
But there is no other instance of DOSBOX active on this PC.

Dosbox do not seems to be only for games if there is a forum named DosBox Game/apps

Don't belive me, believe the developers DOSBox IS NOT SUITED TO RUN YOUR NON-GAMING DOS APPLICATION

Glitchologteam wrote:

Dosbox do not seems to be only for games if there is a forum named DosBox Game/apps

This is a good point. Maybe the subforum and description should be renamed?

No because that still won't stop people from trying their non game programs in DOSBox.

The purpose of the naming of the forums is to funnel people into specific areas so they can get proper support.....even if that's to say there will be no development support for programs in DOSBox.

It is still useful to direct those people to use other software\emulators or to user their program in DOSBox but not to expect integrated patches to support a program.

Why should the DOSBox developers, beta testers and patch creators support a company for free? That is the reason for no official support for programs in DOSBox. We do not want to be liable for corrupting your data. We do not want to do your work for free when we have more important things to do like getting games to work. We do not care one iota about your database app.

Extract the content of your database and import it into something more modern or use a emulator that supports your program.

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