First post, by ThemoKenwood
Hey everyone,
I've started at a new workplace 2 months ago and the infrastructure is/was very outdated, we're talking Windows XP SP 3 on most machines, Windows 7 on the PC of my boss. Now, there is this rather old program that has been used here for 30 odd years with no support staff available anywhere anymore.
My boss is over 70 years old and is used to this kinda database management program and doesn't wanna get rid of it. Together with his successor I'm currently working on a general overhaul of the infrastructure, but the old guard wanna continue using their old database management.
Since the 16-bit based program (starts via a batch-file, that redirects to a .mnu aka a menu-file in which you select which .exe to run aka which database to manage) doesn't run on Win 7 64-bit I thought of using DOSBox. If i mount the drive and want to run the .bat I get the (freely translated from German) Error: "The file [path]\immo.mnu coulnd't be opened!" followed by the error text coded into the .bat file.
If I try to run the .exe that the .mnu redirects to DOSBox just stops reacting to inputs (except kill and somesuch).
Anyone know a solution to the problem?
Thank you in advance.