Re: running DOS programs - failure

"anon" wrote:

> Sorry - I forgot to mention that I installed both the dosbox and the browser
> per the instructions.

I've just downloaded and installed DOSBox v0.65. I didn't notice any
browser.

> I get a window-like screen with the menubar but nothing in the menus allows
> me to access MY files, the only things listed look like something in the
> doxbox operating system - nothing in the root directory of my hdd (the list
> of MY folders.)

If you run DOSBox, it gives you a DOS-like-prompt (shell). You should
see  the prompt "Z:\>". Before you can run your progs, you need to
mount the directory where they live as a drive letter within DOSBox.

So if your old program files are in c:\myoldprogs, and you want to
use "c" as a drive letter, you would type:

 mount c c:\myoldprogs\

or if the path contains spaces, use quotes. e.g:

 mount c "c:\program files\myoldprogs\"

Then type "c:" (without the quotes) to change to that virtual drive,
and run the program as you normally would by typing its name. If
"myoldprogs" is a top-level directory, and your program executable
file is in a subdirectory of that, then "cd" to the subdirectory and
run the executable from there.

Your old program may require other configuration settings like a path
or environment variables. I suggest you RTFM for DOSBox and the
program you're trying to run if it doesn't work first time.