[mdlug] Anyone with FreeDOS and Virtualbox Experience?

[Robert Adkins II]

Eureka!

It appears that the problem I had was related to Filezilla "guessing" how to
upload the attendant programs into the FreeDOS Virtual Machine. Instead of
going Binary, it was uploading in ASCII, which I was unaware of and it
caused the binaries and all files uploaded to the Fdos VM to become corrupt.

Now, onto the next issue.

There's a file processing app in the suite which is, like the rest of the
suite, 16-bit and will not run in Windows 7. In the old system, it was able
to run on Windows XP and it worked blazingly fast, in FreeDOS, it works as
fast as is possible, due to the limitations of DOS, which is to say,
exceedingly slow, even with the FreeDOS VM set to 100% CPU access.

Anyone have any pointers on how potentially speed up the data processing
app? It converts a file format into another file format. It will need to
work with files upwards of 150 to 250MB, likely larger as time progresses.

Thanks.


--

Regards,
Robert

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Carl T. Miller
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:15 AM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Anyone with FreeDOS and Virtualbox Experience?
> 
> Robert Adkins II wrote:
> > I'm beginning to think that there is something wonky with 
> the memory 
> > configuration. The command mem /free is showing no upper memory is 
> > available.
> >
> > Another issue that could be related is that unlike the Windows XP 
> > machine, the Windows 7 system is 64-bit. I believed that 
> the virtual 
> > machine environment might do a better job of hiding that from the 
> > client Virtualized systems, but that may not be the case.
> 
> Another thing you could check is the compatibility mode 
> settings.  I don't recall the details, but I know that you 
> can select to run programs in other modes, such as XP.  Try 
> right clicking the icon and going into the properties.  If 
> you don't find it, search for "windows 7 compatibility mode".
> 
> c
> 
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