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Talking to a Windows application

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First post, by pinnerite

Posted on 2014-03-06, 07:19

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I have a large Clipper collellmpiled MS-DOS program that runs under Windows and also runs under Dosbox. The problem is that I need it to 'talk' to a Windows-resident utility called PageScript that enables it to print to Windows computers (and indirectly to those of a Linux host). I cannot see how to overcome this from Dropbox.

Trying to run both programs under wine failed, leaving the suggestion to deploy dropbox!

Reply 1 of 2, by collector

Posted on 2014-03-06, 07:30

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dropbox?

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Reply 2 of 2, by Jorpho

Posted on 2014-03-07, 18:33

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collellmpiled?

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DOSBox is not meant for running applications and there is generally no way for an application running in DOSBox to communicate with a Windows program. Generally, the best you can do is set something up in Windows that will respond when a file or directory is changed (i.e. by a program running in DOSBox).

Alternatively, you can rewrite the DOSBox source code to make it do what you want if you're sufficiently desperate.

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