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Wish to run 16-bit DOS stdin/stdout app in a Windows pipeline

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First post, by gammaburst

Posted on 2011-02-25, 19:21

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I'd like to run three command-line apps in a Windows pipeline:

A | B | C

A and C are 64-bit Windows console apps. B is a 16-bit DOS utility. Windows by itself can't do it. I can't simply break up the pipeline and use temp files because it's processing continuous real-time data.

Can DOSBox somehow provide a wrapper around B, passing stdin-stdout-environment-parameters to the 16-bit app? I think the answer is "no". Is there another virtual machine that can do it?

Reply 1 of 2, by DosFreak

Posted on 2011-02-25, 19:35

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Reply 2 of 2, by gammaburst

Posted on 2011-02-25, 22:19

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Wow, that runs most of my old utilities splendidly. Thank you!

I discovered that a couple of my old command-line utilities use a Phar Lap DOS extender and 386 code, which are beyond MS-DOS Player's capability. Have you seen a command-line-interface VM that can handle it?

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