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Program cannot be run in DOS Mode?

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gump420:
Hollywood, are you by any chance trying that command under real DOS mode and not a DOS box running in a window? I'm pretty certain that if a program can't run in DOS mode, and you access under a prompt, then it just loads up the program as if you'd double-clicked the icon.

The DOS mode part of that tutorial comes a bit later, in any case. Looking at the directory under Windows was just to prove that Windows was hiding files that are visible in DOS mode.

Hollywood:
Thanks gump I got it to work and found my alphanumeric files. But when I drop in to DOS and open them they are empty. No files at all. On another computer I tried this on there are files inside (mail files) but on mine they are empty. Go figure.

Centurian:

quote:Originally posted by Hollywood:
Thanks gump I got it to work and found my alphanumeric files. But when I drop in to DOS and open them they are empty. No files at all. On another computer I tried this on there are files inside (mail files) but on mine they are empty. Go figure.
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Boot from a floppy and you will have no trouble finding them. When you boot from a floppy only command.com is active no registry info so they become visible.

Later
Centurian

Hollywood:
Centurian

Thanks it worked great

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