I’m hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. I have an old computer system (1993 Vintage) that is running dos 5.0. I have an application that automatically runs when the computer boots. The software works fine when running on the old system although every once in a while this error does pop up. I use this application a lot and wanted to see if it would work running on newer computer. I created a mirror copy of the older drive and formatted a newer hard drive. (It’s an exact mirror i.e. fat file system, hard drive size etc…)
Everything looked like it was going to work out fine until I went to a new menu and the program crashed. I can reboot the system and use it for a short while before getting caught in the same loop. When the program crashes, I’m prompted to enter the time and date or press enter to continue. I have entered a time and day, as well as just pressing enter, the results are the same. I believe I found the file that generates the loop; however what I am unsure of is why.
Here is the line in the .bat file that either starts the program or this time & date loop.
if errorlevel 200 goto ERROR
if errorlevel 100 goto START
goto END
I don’t know what the errorlevel 200 is referring to, or what conditions cause an error level 200. Anyone have any ideas on what I should look into next.