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Some Exe's wont run correctly

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First post, by bozman

Posted on 2013-10-09, 23:36

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I have a couple of exe's that do not seam to run correctly within the Dosbox environment and I was hoping that someone might be able to give me some advise.

The exe's in question are LEXGTI.EXE and TAG2GTI.EXE , basically these two 16 bit programs are used to look inside a file for certian strings of data (more specifically incorrect data strings).

At the end of the process I should be left with 4 files ( this works from the command prompt in XP ) but in Dosbox I only get 2 files returned.

Are there any tricks to getting some applications to run ?

Reply 1 of 3, by collector

Posted on 2013-10-10, 00:43

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Ask in the DOSBox forum.

The Sierra Help Pages -- New Sierra Game Installers -- Sierra Game Patches -- New Non-Sierra Game Installers

Reply 2 of 3, by Jorpho

Posted on 2013-10-10, 02:57

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First of all, make sure you're running the programs correctly. Double-check to make sure they run as expected in a normal DOS environment. When you use DOSBox, follow the 60 Seconds Guide if you haven't already.

You can try to use a debug-enabled version of DOSBox to track which files the programs are trying to access and see if it is doing anything unexpected. The SVN Daum build includes such a build.

Some programs require low-level disk access that is only available when booting DOS inside DOSBox; there are threads about that in the Guides forum as well.

Reply 3 of 3, by bozman

Posted on 2013-10-10, 03:25

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Thanks guys , I have reposted my thread and will checkout the guides

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