Topic: Shelling to DOS in Win XP64 (1 of 4), Read 35 times
Conf: Other, General, etc.
From: Peter Rejto
Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 03:03 PM

Hello,

I have installed Vedit 5.12 on my WinXP64 machine. I have a problem with the {Misc, DOS shell} menu command. I get an error message saying, essentially, that

...Please contact software vendor about a 64 bit Windows compatible version of the file MSDOSNT.PIF. Sometimes I also get a CANNOT SHELL OUT. ERROR 2 message.


Thanks,


-peter

 

Topic: Re: Shelling to DOS in Win XP64 (2 of 4), Read 35 times
Conf: Other, General, etc.
From: Ted Green
Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 03:39 PM

At 03:04 PM 6/9/2008, you wrote:
>From: "Peter Rejto"
>
>Hello,
>
>I have installed Vedit 5.12 on my WinXP64 machine. I have a problem with the {Misc, DOS shell} menu command. I get an error message saying, essentially, that

Peter:

We really cannot give any support for such old versions.

Ted.

 

Topic: Shelling to DOS in Win XP64 (3 of 4), Read 36 times
Conf: Other, General, etc.
From: Peter Rejto
Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 09:32 PM

On 6/9/2008 3:03:29 PM, Peter Rejto wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have installed Vedit 5.12 on
>my WinXP64 machine. I have a
>problem with the {Misc, DOS
>shell} menu command. I get an
>error message saying,
>essentially, that
>
>...Please contact software
>vendor about a 64 bit Windows
>compatible version of the file
>MSDOSNT.PIF. Sometimes I also
>get a CANNOT SHELL OUT. ERROR
>2 message.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>-peter



Thanks Ted,

I had a typo in the version number. It is the new version,
6.15.2.
Sorry for the confusion.



-peter

 

Topic: Shelling to DOS in Win XP64 (4 of 4), Read 46 times
Conf: Other, General, etc.
From: Peter Rejto
Date: Friday, June 13, 2008 12:05 AM


Hello,

Using a suggestion of Ian, webboard.vedit.com/read?33453,49 I did find a work around to the {Misc, DOS shell} menu issue in Win-XP-64. Specifically, I did find the command,

System(`cmd /k cd "|(Cur_Dir)\"`,MAX)


which does open up a maximized DOS box.

Here is a comparison with the {Misc, DOS shell} menu command, which uses the MSDOSNT*.PIF commands.

1.: It displays long file names.
2.: The DOS box is maximized.
3.: It can be run in both Win-XP and Win-Xp-64.

So far, it worked fine for me. At the same time, I understand that shelling out is a delicate issue. So, I would appreciate the testing of fellow Vedit users.

Thanks,

-peter.