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Using SHARE.EXE in DosBox Megabuild 6 a SUCESS

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First post, by jbaguire

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Have searched forum after forum on this and pieced together information from 4 seperate forums to make some OLD accounting software work in DosBox, and we had trouble afterwards with two people in the same file in a database.

We fixed this by extracting MS-DOS ver. 6.22 contents into a folder in the same directory of the accounting software and running the SHARE.EXE in autoexec... here is the autoexec settings:

VER SET 6 22
MOUNT K K:\
MOUNT J J:\
J:
CD msdos622
SHARE.EXE
CD ..
APPLICATION.EXE

The K drive is the database and the J drive is the program. We have the extracted MS-DOS disk in a folder where the program is stored and at the beginning we change the version of dosbox to the correct one...6.22.
Now they are able to access the same database files.

This shows that changing the version of dosbox as well as pointing dosbox at SHARE.EXE, will allow you to run it successfully

Reply 1 of 1, by ripsaw8080

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DOSBox is intended to run DOS games, not applications. There is a big difference between getting an application to run and having it work correctly. Many shortcuts exist in DOSBox's code because they're "good enough for games", so you should never trust it with your (presumably) valuable business data.

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