re: LPT1 conflict (DOS apps)
Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|I have been reading your advice
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Oh, so you're the one. 8-)
|and what you say [makes] a lot of sense to me
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--but--but--I recommend *against* running software for which you can't get updates
8-) (e.g. 12-year-old closed-source OSes and browsers).
I forgot to mention the simple, obvious solution:
Start up in Real DOS (which underlies the Win9x GUI).
You know the drill. Right?
When booting your box, hold down F8 or F5
and choose Command Prompt Only (#5) from the list.
http://publish.it168.com/2005/0525/images/347025.jpg
If your DOS app is a single file and doesn't have/create other files in its own directory,
you could put the executable in your root directory (C:\)
and that will save you from having to navigate to it (CD {path}).
If, OTOH, there are associated DOS device drivers or template files or other stuff,
then having the app and its files in their own directory would be more tidy;
now, you *can* put a batch file in the root directory that calls the app.
Just make the contents of the file the path to the app, e.g.
C:\COOLAPP1\COOLAPP1.EXE
(you don't even need to use the .EXE part)
and call it e.g. COOLAPP1.BAT.
To make things friendlier, you could also find a DOS file manger that is FAT32-compatible.
http://google.com/search?q="DOS.file.manager"+"long.filename"+OR+"long.filenames"
- Written in response to:
- re: LPT1 conflict (DOS apps) (Anders: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 9:40 pm)
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