I keep forgetting that TRIUS made a Windows-only self-extracting zip file for the DOS version of As-Easy-As. Oh the irony. So yes, you'll get that message if you try to run asa57.exe on DOS.
Use the 'unzip' program on it, like it was a zip file. You can rename it from asa57.exe to asa57.zip if you like. Then you can unzip it and run the installer. On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM Davide Erbetta via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hi all, > > after having read the very interesting book by Jim Hall about "As-Easy-As" > software I've decided to try the software; so, I've downloaded it from the > link suggested in the FreeDOS website: > > https://web.archive.org/web/20240527084029/http://triusinc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10&sid=2ed30802f5c185374381efde55d60eae > > and then: > > https://web.archive.org/web/20240527084029/http://www.triusinc.com/old_files/asa57.exe > > Then I've mounted my FreeDOS "hard drive", in linux, as I do usually: > > guestmount -a data.qcow2 -m /dev/sda1 ./mnt > > Then I've moved the asa75.exe in it, and started FreeDOS. > In FreeDOS, when I try to run asa57.exe I get the following message: > > "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." > > What am I missing ? > The same if I download it from: > https://archive.org/details/as-easy-as-version-5.7-for-dos > > I've downloaded in the past other DOS programs and moved them into FreeDOS > with the same procedure and I've never received that message. > > Thanks in advance for any hint! > Best regards, > Davide _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
