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running DOS program in XP
Friday, March 28, 2008 at 8:27 pm
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Posted by david (34 messages posted)


I have a couple of DOS programs I still depend on. I've been using them on my new 
XP machine without incident. That is, until today. I opened one of the programs and 
it hung before painting the welcome screen. All I got was a black screen with a blinking 
cursor. I was able to ALT-TAB back to XP and force-close. I tried the other program 
and got the same result. This seems to eliminate issues with DOS properties settings. 
I rebooted and all was fine. I figured it was some sort of glitch. However, a few 
hours later, it happened again.

Anyone have an idea what may be going on here?



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