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Many thanks to Henry Amand and Ton Maas for their enlightening comments on the DOS issue.
So, it's not as bad as seemed to me.
Cheers, Vitaly
Vitaly Larichev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have many testing, TA analyzing codes written to run in DOS environment. Now considering that
> Win2K and later OS won't support DOS anymore, I am facing a dreadful option - to rewrite all this
> stuff in other languages. Lately, I've come to learn about
> ServiceMill software http://www.activeplus.com/ (see also below their recent response to my inquiry)
> which seems allowing to run DOS codes on WinNT-Win2K based machines. With its very reasonable price,
> it would be the easiest way out of the trouble. Perhaps, somebody more knowledgeable than I am could
> comment on this and/or other options?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers, Vitaly
>
> Active+ Software wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I still have a lot of DOS batch files and
> > > FORTRAN 77 codes (to run in DOS environment)
> > > on Win 98 box. Seems coming Window OS
> > > will drop DOS support for good. So what
> > > options do I face if upgrading to Win2K?
> > > Is it correct to assume that using ServiceMill
> > > on Win2K may help me avoid rewriting all these
> > > codes in Perl/VB or whatever?
> >
> > Windows NT (also known as Win2K...) has a very good DOS virtual
> > machine, you should be able to run anything from the old world as long
> > as it does not have any direct hardware access. ServiceMill will help
> > you run a DOS application as a service. This means that your old
> > programs will run in the background like they are part of the operating
> > system. I personally still use some old DOS utilities and they run well.
> > The only problem I often encounter is the 8.3 file name format.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Daniel Doguet
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