Re: off topic, but just a bit--DOS dictionary

[Mark Garvey dutch_garvey@xxxxxxxx]

J.R.:

My original post probably wasn't as clear as it
could've been. I'll be running this dictionary ONLY in
DOS.

I tried putting the contents of the floppy disks on
one CD and eventually into numbered directories on the
Omnibook C drive. That didn't work.

I think I'm on the right path now, though--installing
the dictionary into DOS on an old Pentium machine that
has a net connection but no CD burner. I'll then
restart that machine in Win, put a zipped copy of the
entire installed directory on FTP and grab it from the
Omnibook (running Win98). That oughta do it.

thx,
mg


--- "J. R. Fox"  wrote:
>
> Mark Garvey wrote:
>
> > There are two ways to start the dictionary--as a
> > standalone or as a TSR. In the past I've loaded it
> as
> > a TSR. The command to run it that way is not
> working
> > for me now.
>
> I'm not sure TSRs are allowed in Win versions after
> W98. A number of
> things (like RamDisks) were disallowed.
>
> > It does run, sort of, in standalone
> > mode--only problem is I can't close it..so have to
> > reboot.
>
> Most every program that runs under W2K | XP *should*
> be killable by
> End Task, under CTRL-ALT-DEL. If something refuses
> to go away, this
> is likely a bad sign.
>
> A DOS program should not need to be installed (into
> Win) in order to
> work. It is a matter of getting the right
> collection of files into
> suitable location(s), then getting the Properties
> settings right. Of
> course, there are probably a certain number of DOS
> and Win-16 programs
> that are no longer compatible with the Dosbox of W2K
> or XP, for one
> reason or another. But it does not sound as though
> this would be one
> of them.
>
> Jordan
>


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