First post, by pchangover
Ok I have an unusual problem that I hope someone can help me with. My uncle is a machinist and is starting to get interested in computers and wants to program on a laptop while away from home. He got a copy of the control software from work. It's a very basic Anilam program - p6m that is made in DOS.
Here is what I did:
I installed DosBox and used a spare hard drive as "C". In this drive there are two folders. The first folder is P6M, where the program is stored. The second folder is Users, where the coded files are stored - g code. In the P6M folder is an exe, aptly titled P6M.exe. This executable references the Users folder for all of the saved files that the user created. Here is what my autoexec looks like:
mount a a:\ -t floppy
mount c k:\
C:
C:\P6M\P6M.EXE
k:\ is where I have those two folders.
Now the problem is that whenever the program launches:
1. It doesn't recognize the drive type (CDS) so it can't do error checking which really isn't a problem.
2. I can't see the floppy drive from within the program. Here lies the biggest problem as he needs to be able to write to the floppy so he can load the file into his mill.
I have him using vmware running DOS for now which works fine with the floppy but I would much rather use DosBox as it is easier to use and less of a resource hog. So any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
