DOSBox IS NOT SUITED TO RUN YOUR NON-GAMING DOS APPLICATION

thanks, shame really i ended up at dos box as most sites said for any dos programs , so a lot of miss information out there as usual and it seems that another program windos has gone down so i am stuck for now, cheers brian

BrianG123 wrote:

the program i use needs a autoexec.bat file (SET WSID=MCWW1) and config sys (FILES=74) to set an Id before it will work

There is nothing magical about autoexec.bat. You can just type "SET WSID=MCWW1" on the DOSBox command line and it will accomplish the same thing.

FILES=74 is a little trickier. You will need the SVN Daum version of DOSBox for that.

But as Mr. Qbix states, you are probably better off using a virtual machine like VMware.

Files is probably not the problem. The problem is nore likely that paths in dosbox are different to those the program was set up with

yes i tried putting the auto exec and config sys file in the directory with the program as when its mounted it operates as the C drive, and although it recognises they are there it doesn't do the job, I havent come across the VM ware to use as most of what i can find is Mac to windows operating ...Thanks again guys

Brian
Oh BTW its meant to be DB4 based program...

BrianG123 wrote:

yes i tried putting the auto exec and config sys file in the directory with the program as when its mounted it operates as the C drive

No one said you should do that. I already said that you most likely do not need an autoexec.bat and config.sys .

Follow the 60 Seconds Guide if you haven't already.