Re: running DOS programs - failure

What programs?  Old DOS programs can have a lot of difficulty on 
XP's DOS support so it varies.  Might be possibleto make an 
educated guess based on the features of the program.
   Exactly what happens when you try to run it?
   Are you running it from a DOS window or Start,Run,CMD, or how?

Have you tried useing the program's XP Properties to put it into 
win98 compatability mode?  That might be all it needs.

You can run actual DOS as an os, but note it's an os; and so is 
XP.  Therefore you'd have to get into learning to dual boot, 
etc..

I might have a couple links I can suggest if you try to answer 
the questions above.  There are also DOS "simulators" but I've 
never had much luck with them; pretty clunky as a rule.

HTH,
Pop


"anon" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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>I have tried to run a couple of DOS programs on a wXP computer.
>
> I get an error message (similar to) "ERROR CM AT IP FFFDH"
>
> I think the hex addresses may be different.
>
> Why did this run ok on w98se but fails in wxp?
>
> Any cure for this as I need the data and output which is stored 
> and produced
> by the programs.
>
> These programs don't have a windows version, only the DOS 
> version.
>
> In addition, there are no web pages for these programs (mostly 
> the programmers and companies are long gone.)
>
> Also is there any way to install DOS and have it run those DOS 
> programs???
>