From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike McCarty Subject: Re: installing DOS program Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:59:46 -0600 Message-ID: <49BE1502.6050600@sbcglobal.net> References: <1237050051.8962.10.camel@pete-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1237050051.8962.10.camel@pete-desktop> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: FreeDOS Peter M Le Mare wrote: > I am trying to install a DOS which will run beside MSwindows merely by > copying it to C: I have it on a CD and when I have tried using DOS > commands to copy to the C: drive it will not copy the exe file. The I suppose you don't mean to say that the program starts up merely by it being copied. I suppose you mean that all it requires by means of preparing it to run is to copy it to the C: drive. > programme I trying to copy is an amazing but old DTP programme called DTP = Desktop Publishing? > Jetsetter. I have made directories on the virtual C: and it has copied > many of the files and made the fonts directory but NOT the graphics and > the jetset.exe file will not allow access to copy - why. How can i What messages (if any) get displayed? Is is possible that the destination doesn't have enough free space to hold the program? > install this programme. If not then how do I actually install a version > of windows (I have Windows 98 SE) to be able to install and use my Serif > programmes. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!