First post, by Advercy
Hello,
We recently purchased a new computer to act as our server (the motherboard went out on our old one.) As all new computers come today, it came with windows 7. We use SMART as our names and addresses database for our business's annual newsletter plus our vendor contact information etc. It didn't take much to discover that DOSbox was the only option for Windows 7 home premium 64bit users who want to run DOS programs.
I've figured out how to make DOSbox start the SMART program, however i cannot get it to follow the path (of projects that my dad wrote) that causes smart to open the right directories and cause SMART to perform as we need it to.
When I use (Changing the "target" under properties of the DOSbox shortcut)
C:\sw\Smrt310\SMART1st.exe
it opens the basic SMART screen, however when i use
C:\SW\SMRT310\SMART1st.EXE d -y -ps -fnet_3P1 -r32 -sc:\sw\smrt310
(which contains the path for the SMART to open the right menu and be useful for us) it simply opens the regular DOSbox screen as if nothing was added to the target line. I'm not sure what this means, or what to do about it.
Can anyone shed some insight? Everything i've read online makes DOSbox out to just be a DOS game opener, and offers no other help. At this point i don't even know if running SMART in the way we need it to is possible with DOSbox. Any help is appreciated!