DOS programs on a 64 bit OS

A lot of gamers had already figured this out, but we found this out the hard way, last year, when some of the archaic database tools we used for our job would not work on a 64 bit operating system!  There is a great little free program called DOSBOX (donations are encouraged!)  that will enable older 16 bit programs to work.  It was a little clunky running some DOS commands, but over all, worked as a good solution until we developed better tools.   After you download this program and install it, you will have a file called dosbox.conf.  You can edit this and put your mount command in under the [autoexec] line, down near the bottom.  Then you won’t have to type the mount command, each time you run it.

~Sunny

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I live in Southern Illinois with my husband and our three little Pomeranian dogs. I have two grown children and two beautiful grandchildren. While I have worked with computers and software for over 25 years, I am fairly new to web design. I started 'fooling around' with it a few years ago. I'm here to tell you, that it is never too late to learn something new and to challenge yourself!

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