Installing 16-bit Program on a 64-bit computer

[Mario Samuel]

Ok, so I've been trying to get vDos installed on our computers here and I finally got it installed. Now I am trying to use vDos to install another program but I really don't know where to begin. What I've done thus far is to try to map or change the the vDos "C" to my windows "C" using the "USE" command in autoexec but I don't think i'm doing it right. Is there some sort of "how to" guide I can use?

Thanks

[Jos Schaars]

First off, assigning any vDos drive letter to the root of Windows boot drive (C:) is a bad idea. Windows doesn’t like you or your programs accessing that, and it can cause unpredictable errors.

Create some directory for your DOS programs and data, for instance (Windows) C:\DOS. If your programs are still running on some Windows 32-bit PC, copy the needed program and data directories to C:\DOS. Copy the config.txt and autoexec.txt files to each program directory, and adjust the autoexec.txt files so they start your program. Create some shortcuts to vDos.exe (C:\vDos?), rename them to some sensible name (Program A, Program B), so you can identify what’s what, and that name is shown in title bar for the vDos Window. Lastly, set the property Start-in directory of each shortcut to the DOS program directory (C:\DOS\Program A…).

If you need to install a program, copy the installation programs to for instance C:\DOS\INSTALL. Start vDos by the original shortcut, or by double clicking vDos.exe, the at the command prompt:
USE C: C:\DOS
CD INSTALL
INSTALL (or something likewise to install the program).

Then the same as above.

Jos