Ann,
I don't think, or I would be quite surprised if, your student can actually
run real Dos programs from Windows XP. There are sites which give you
suggestions on what you may need to do to XP to enable some programs to run.
From what I understand, though, programs which are 16-bit based and need to
interact with hardware may not work.
Here is an article that lists what may need to be done with XP to get it to
work with some Dos programs:
http://pages.prodigy.net/daleharris/xperrors.htm
I doubt you will get much functionality with Jaws for Windows in Dos except
for reading the command line output.
I don't know enough about whether it is possible to set up a separat4e
partition where you could load Dos and run Jaws for Dos. That might be
problematic because the old Dos I think worked in Fat32 while Windows uses
NTFS. Maybe somebody else will have more useful information.
Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
Steve
Lansing, MI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Byrne" <ann...@sbcglobal.net>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:37 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS with DOS with windows XP
My student is working with some DOS programs and windows XP. Will JAWS11
be enough DOS? Would it help for him to load the old JAWS for DOS?
When I have used DOS from windows, as I recall you read with the JAWS
cursor, then enter on the command line? Yes??? No???
Thanks,
Ann
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