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gujjar
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« on: October 14, 2006, 09:35:11 AM »
hey !!!

     I am new in this forum i hope i am in right place.....

     plz tell me how copy a programme from the computer which has only DOS  i want to copy programme from that computer to another...  it only runs in dos ...
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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2006, 10:06:24 AM »
How big is the program?  Often DOS programs are fully contained in a single directory.  The first thing I would try is copy the directory from the source computer to a floppy disk, then copy the contents of the floppy disk to the target computer in a directory named the same as on the source computer.

Then try it out and see if you get any error messages.
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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2006, 02:09:50 PM »
How big the files are, or at least the biggest one, and what you have to copy with are the deciding factors. What program is it?
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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2006, 09:43:44 PM »
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How big is the program?  Often DOS programs are fully contained in a single directory.  The first thing I would try is copy the directory from the source computer to a floppy disk, then copy the contents of the floppy disk to the target computer in a directory named the same as on the source computer.

Then try it out and see if you get any error messages.

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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2006, 10:15:52 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2006, 03:42:13 AM »
hey!!!

the programme i want to copy is too big i copied it to the floopy but the sapce was not enough. The programme is used in my cousins shop to rent the films. I have also pulled the hard disk from this computer and attached with the other computer as a "slave"
but this hardisk never becomes "slave" ........  

                      is there any way to connect my usb and copy the programme in it cause i have tried but dos does not detect usb

     I AM STUCK
    
                      
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2006, 05:53:49 AM »
You need to re-set the jumper on that new machine's HDD to "master w/slave" before the BIOS will recognise the slave drive...

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gujjar
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« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2006, 11:00:26 AM »
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     I had tried the jumper settings before but even then the hdd never becomes slave i dont now what is happening is there any way to copy the programme into the usb....
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« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2006, 07:04:16 PM »
It might be time to think outside the box:

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1152393515
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