I'm trying to run the old DOS Q&A database program.
I've managed to mount and run the exe but I can't work out how to find its working database files.
I've tried directing it to the usual c drive directory from within the program, and also tried using Z
I'm sure I'm missing something very obvious, so kind assistance would be much appreciated!
give us your mountings or if the issue is what I suspect it is you are mounting the directory of the program as c:\ instead of the directory on top of it 😀
For example if your dtabase program is located on your real drive in c:\dosstuff\qa then don't "mount c c:\dosstuff\qa" but "mount c c:\dosstuff"
The regular setting where the files are is:
c:\00data\qa
The program files are in
c:\00data\qaprog
Which should I mount?
I think I can move the database files to another directory if need be.
I usually run the program from a batch file in c:\bat but could do without that for this particular installation.
Thank you!
give us your mountings
😀
But anyway, if you put a copy of c:\00data\ and all its contents at c:\dosstuff and then "mount c c:\dosstuff" you might be able to start it.
The problem is that the program most likely specifically expects its data to be at c:\00data\qa and when you do whatever mountings you normally do (you didn't provide those) you screw it up...
OK, I'll try copying it all to a new directory and change the internal pointers and see what happens.
Thanks again!
