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Re: [CQ-Contest] Adding MS-DOS to a WindowsXP Computer

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Adding MS-DOS to a WindowsXP Computer
From: Bill Turner <dezrat@copper.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:30:31 -0800
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On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:52:07 -0500, Mark Bailey <kd4d@comcast.net>
 wrote:

>WindowsXP offers the ability to open a "Command Prompt" window which
>will run some command line programs.  It specifically won't run
>any DOS program that accesses the serial or parallel port, like
>the contest logging programs CT and TR.

------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------

Ok, if you say so. I run a number of DOS programs such as G4FGQ's
suite of calculator programs and K6STI's coil.exe and maybe a few
others. None of them require access to a port, so perhaps that is the
difference.

Bill, W6WRT
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