hello listmembers,

my problem is, I am not able to run a DOS exe from within WinNT4.0. It is a small cross assembler program, which when run from within NT, fires a message : FCB not found and does not run. The same program runs fine in WIN95. Sure, someone can help.
Many Thanks.

Pravin Fatnani

 

I really don't know the source, but it's a 68000 cross asembler ver 3.00b.
Pravin Fatnani

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>From: roger Irwin <>
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>> my problem is, I am not able to run a DOS exe from within WinNT4.0. It is
>> a small cross assembler program,
>
>Details please, which cross assembler?



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DOS uses a File Control Block (FCB), while your NT system uses a completely different NTFS file system. Win 95 is a shell built on top of DOS which adds graphical and other enhancements, while NT is a much more advanced operating system.

NT may emulate many of the features of DOS, but it can't duplicate many of them because it is inherently different.

Hope this helps!

 

The FCB refers to an old DOS entity called file control blocks. Just add

FCBS=8

to the config.nt file on your system. (This keeps 8 files open using file control blocks instead of the "files" entity ex. files=8 command).

This is typical in really old DOS programs (pre 2.x versions). Since the program is old and was probably built for the XT or AT platform, you have a better chance of running it in NT than "newer" programs. However be aware that NT does not have a real DOS box, thus it may not run your program reliably.

Good Luck

Michel A. Levesque, eng.
Directeur Bureau Montreal
AIA Inc.
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