Dos sessions in xp

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Justin Shaw

Hi,

my name is Justin and I am trying to upgrade to xp. I am
currently running windows 98 and I restart in dos to run a
finance program. I tried upgrading to xp but the finance
menu doesn't want to run right in the command line. I
think its looking for the command.com during the
operation. Does anyone have any Ideas on how I can get it
to work...the dos program runs off of a sentinal.

Thank you for any help you can provide,

Justin

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Justin Shaw said:
my name is Justin and I am trying to upgrade to xp. I am
currently running windows 98 and I restart in dos to run a
finance program. I tried upgrading to xp but the finance
menu doesn't want to run right in the command line. I
think its looking for the command.com during the
operation. Does anyone have any Ideas on how I can get it
to work...the dos program runs off of a sentinal.
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Justin,

There are many compatability options in Windows XP. I am guessing you have
tried running the said application in Windows 95/98/etc compatability mode
by right-clicking, properties, comapatability tab and read up about "program
compatability" in the Help and Support files.

Also, I cam guessing that instead of using the built in shortcut for
CMD.EXE, you have tried START -> RUN and typing in "command" instead. It
does emulate things differently (slightly) there. But that is all it is
doing - emulating.

You could make a boot floppy and boot to DOS, but there is no guaranty that
the bootable floppy you could make with Windows XP tools would help either,
not to mention you would need that application somehwere you could get to
it, as if your system is formatted with NTFS, you cannot see that in DOS
easily.

You also could go to www.bootdisk.com and download a DOS boot diskette and
use it - that would definitely give you the OS (From DOS (I think 3.X?) to
Current) you needed, provided again you could get this finance program
somewhere you could use it.

If this is a constant thing - the use of this program - I am afraid you may
be looking to have to upgrade or if you programmed it - fix it. Otherwise
this reboot with Floppy (if the compatabilty modes don't fix things) will
get old fairly quickly.
 
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