[Wine] How to: Run a DOS program using Wine

[James McKenzie]

dale5351 wrote:
> [quote="Pavel Troller"]Hi!
> You have to enter "wine cmd.exe". It should work.
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> OK, that works -- sort of.   I had thought it might open a new command window.   Instead it echos CMD Version 0,9.25 and then changes the current window into a "sort of" Command window.  I can navigate around the directory structure defined in wine, and I can execute simple batch files that way.   However, when I then attempt to execute any real program, I get a long error dump and exit.
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>> Wine is not intended to run DOS programs. I'm afraid that it will not work. I'm afraid that you will have to live with DosBox :-(.
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>   I was becoming afraid of that.  I had hoped that since windows can run DOS programs that Wine would allow the same ability.
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>   Thanks for the response.   Guess I've have to give up on Wine for this purpose.   I'll leave it on in case I decide that there is some real windows program I have to have.
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I would also like to add that there are several good quality 'DOS' 
emulators, so it is not high on the priority list of the Wine team to 
fix the brokenness for running DOS programs through the command line 
window. 

James McKenzie