Thanks Horst Got it working using 'dosbox' - a dos emulator (which works in mutiple platforms).
MD -----Original Message----- From: Horst Herb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Medidata.exe - refuses to start On Thursday 18 January 2007 10:59, Michael Daly - Melbourne wrote: > Thanks > I believe Medidata is a company based in that part of Melbourne, or at > least it used to be, but he does NOT want to upgrade or migrate because he > is winding down his practice. > > We are looking for a technical solution rather than a business solution DOS and DOS programs cannot cope with much memory, and probably spits the dummy at times on file systems > FAT16. May have problems with interrupt controller and timer (and Windows DOS sessions do not virtualize them properly). I'd suggest trying a DOS emulator (eg the one that comes with most Linux distributions) and run the program in a virtualized DOS environment Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
