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NON-SUPPORT OF DOS
I recently purchased a new PC with Windows XP Home
Edition. It doesn't have DOS capabilities and I have many DOS programs written in QBasic. What's the best solution to this problem? Anything short of re-programming everything in a language supported by XP?? And if re- programming is the best solution, what language is the closest to Qbasic? Is PERL a compatible and easy to use language? Thank You, J B Waskom |
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NON-SUPPORT OF DOS
Windows XP (Home and Professional) are not based on MS-
DOS and do not have the option of booting to MS-DOS mode. There is a command prompt available and various additional compatibility settings, but the ability to run an old MS-DOS only program is not guaranteed. To get "Command Prompt" (DOS) options: Open Command Prompt window: Start - All programs - Accessories - Command Prompt Type "help | more" (no quotes) Press Enter key That's the words "help" - vertical bar (Shift+\) - "more" -----Original Message----- I recently purchased a new PC with Windows XP Home Edition. It doesn't have DOS capabilities and I have many DOS programs written in QBasic. What's the best solution to this problem? Anything short of re-programming everything in a language supported by XP?? And if re- programming is the best solution, what language is the closest to Qbasic? Is PERL a compatible and easy to use language? Thank You, J B Waskom . |
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NON-SUPPORT OF DOS
Keep your old DOS based computer to run the DOS programs. A machine that
will run XP will run DOS 6.22 extremely fast but it is overkill. You also probably won't find DOS drivers for the sound card and much of the other equipment in the system that requires drivers. You can also partition your C: drive into a less than 2 GB partition for DOS and dual boot the computer using a boot manager. This would give you the ability to use XP on the larger partition. DOS wouldn't be able to access the larger partition. -- Please respond back to the newsgroup when your problem has been solved to assist all in the newsgroup! wrote in message ... I recently purchased a new PC with Windows XP Home Edition. It doesn't have DOS capabilities and I have many DOS programs written in QBasic. What's the best solution to this problem? Anything short of re-programming everything in a language supported by XP?? And if re- programming is the best solution, what language is the closest to Qbasic? Is PERL a compatible and easy to use language? Thank You, J B Waskom |
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