On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Miguel Garza <[email protected]> wrote: > But I still think it's really neat. I am playing around with the DOS > program Dates, and some other stuff. Honestly, seems to be easier to > run stuff in a "DOS" window in XP than booting straight to DOS because > of the aforementioned availability of internet, sound just works, etc. > But I have the option if I want.
It's not really a "DOS" window. Run a 16 bit DOS program, and Windows spawns NTVDM to provide an MS-DOS environment, and a copy of COMMAND.COM to run the DOS app in a console window. If you shell out of the DOS app in the console, you are in 32 bit Windows land, talking to CMD.EXE You can set up a preferred DOS environment in the \Windows\System32 autoexec.nt and config.nt files. These are read and processed whenever a DOS app is run. You can also do things in batch files that will run the app. (Note that autoexec.nt and config.nt will override anything specified in a batch file, so only place entries there you want to be true for any DOS app you might run.) ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
