On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 at 19:26, Sean Warner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Gmail on my Android phone forces me to be type an answer above a previous 
> reply. Don't know how change the email to plain text..

Ah, yes. It doesn't work on the mobile client, so I try to avoid ever
answering anyone from the mobile client.

K9Mail does work for this.

> Anyway, thank you so much for all your helpful information! We are currently 
> running this "dos" program in win 7 32 bit and were using it in Win XP before 
> that. Yes I'm quite sure it's a dos program.. the only colours are black, 
> blue, white and yellow. It has no windows and it's all command line in 
> appearance, no mouse works just all arrow keys to navigate around.

That isn't evidence. Win32 Console Apps are a real thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Console

Here's how to build one:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61030578/win32-console-application

The best way to check if it's a console app is to try to run it under
DOS. Forget the dongle etc., just see if it launches.

Because, as others have said, if it needs a USB device then it very
probably is *not* a DOS app, because DOS doesn't really support USB.
(There are a handful of specialised drivers and things but it's
extremely limited.)

> I think I read that MS are ending support for XP mode but maybe that's worth 
> a try if it'll make things easier with networking and usb support which we 
> need. I'll see if I can keep this ancient program running for another year or 
> two!

I suspect it's already out of support. XP itself is, VirtualPC is, and
Win7 is on special paid-for emergency patches only.

But then again, FreeDOS is out of support, because it was never *in*
support. :-D

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