dos

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Jul 4 2006, 8:35 am
how do you run dos files? every time i open a dos program it opens and closes?
Jul 4 2006, 8:47 am
Get an emulator.
Jul 4 2006, 8:48 am
In response to D4RK3 54B3R
dos emulator?
Jul 4 2006, 8:50 am
In response to Xx Dark Wizard xX
Yes. Something like Dosbox can run DOS games.
Jul 4 2006, 9:03 am
In response to D4RK3 54B3R
no a dos program called XCHAR opens and closes in like 1 second
Jul 4 2006, 9:06 am
In response to Xx Dark Wizard xX
Well some of the older operating systems like windows 98 and 95 have DOS included, you could just boot up into DOS. However, I don't think windows xp has DOS included. Go find yourself a dos emulator... >_>
Jul 4 2006, 1:30 pm
First, run "cmd"

Then run the program from inside the command prompt. A message should show that right now is probably vanishing too quickly for you to see.
Jul 4 2006, 8:19 pm
In response to Jon88
also, if you right click on the .exe, in the properties there's a checkmark that dictates wheter the exe closes automatically on completion. If you set it to remain open on completion, the window wont disappear.
Jul 5 2006, 2:58 pm
In response to D4RK3 54B3R
D4RK3 54B3R wrote:
Well some of the older operating systems like windows 98 and 95 have DOS included, you could just boot up into DOS. However, I don't think windows xp has DOS included. Go find yourself a dos emulator... >_>

I think it is in there

Look under WINDOWS
Jul 5 2006, 3:04 pm
In response to D4RK3 54B3R
It has a dos emulator. DOSBox, from what I have heard(an seen with QBASIC) runs better than windowns XP's DOS emulator.
Jul 5 2006, 8:54 pm
In response to Scoobert
Windows XP's "DOS" isn't really a DOS emulator at all... it's just a nameless built-from-the-ground-up command line with DOS-like syntax; so much so that it often passes for DOS, and most people call it DOS (even people who should know better), but it technically isn't.

Many of the dodgy things that you could do with memory in DOS (and often had to do in order to make full use of the system's memory - memory handling in DOS was abysmal) can't be done on Windows XP (via the command line or otherwise), simply because XP's memory management system is much more sensible (not to mention safer).

That's one of the reasons why old DOS games won't run on Windows XP any more... they're not allowed to mess with memory as much as they want to! Hence the need for emulation, and DOSBox (which, by the way, rules).