Dos program hangs

[Npsys]

I have a dos tax program that hangs in windows XP on
input. I believe that the program is hanging when it is
writing to the hard drive. The data is written correctly
but the program stops working (hangs) afterwards. This
program does work on other machines running windows xp,
are there any settings that may be on this machine that
the others do not have?

Thanks

Npsys

 

[Byte]

DOS programs were written in the old FAT file format.
Since then we have FAT32 and now XP with NTFS. I have
and run many DOS programs very effectively. They must be
loaded under the Command prompt (C:\) First check your
DOS setup on this PC. Rightclick the DOS prompt icon and
click Properties. Click the Options tab and set the
Buffer size to 50 and the number of buffers to 4. Click
Apply and OK. You can do additional checking with your
other PCs how they are set up to run your specific tax
program. Good luck.

 

[Npsys]

I will try the those settings, but I was also wondering
if the drive letter made a difference. This machine is
the only one with the root drive set as E instead of C.
When the system was originally setup a zip drive was
installed which is now the C: drive. Would this make any
difference to the program?

thanks alot

Nysys

 

[Malke]

I will try the those settings, but I was also wondering
if the drive letter made a difference. This machine is
the only one with the root drive set as E instead of C.
When the system was originally setup a zip drive was
installed which is now the C: drive. Would this make any
difference to the program?

thanks alot

Nysys

Yes, actually, the fact that the root drive isn't C: is probably totally
confusing this old program. When the program was written, hard drives
were small, very expensive, and home machines only had one. Good
observation on your part.

Malke

 

[Alex Nichol]

I will try the those settings, but I was also wondering
if the drive letter made a difference. This machine is
the only one with the root drive set as E instead of C.
When the system was originally setup a zip drive was
installed which is now the C: drive. Would this make any
difference to the program?

If you run the program through the DOS Emulator (eg from the All
Programs - Accessories - Command Prompt) *and* it is using formal DOS
calls to handle files, then it is going through the WIndows file system,
and all should be well. If it is trying to write to disk itself,
handling the hardware direct, then that will positively be prevented,
and you cannot get it permitted at all
..