The method of letting the DOS program run under the xp system

  
After upgrading the system to the xp system, the user will find that there is no DOS in the new xp system, but some old versions of the software still need to be run under DOS. You can use the Start command of the xp system to achieve DOS operation.
The format of the Start command is: Start/[option]program[arg]
There is a Start.exe program in the Command subdirectory of Windows, which can be used to open a program or file, for example, at the beginning. Type start otepad and press Enter to start the “Notepad” program. To open the Docname.txt file, type start Docname.txt at the command prompt; in addition, it can launch multiple applications at the same time.
In the Windows XP command prompt, type: start/seperate to run the program, you can run the corresponding DOS program. The function of the parameter separate is to start a 16-bit program in a separate memory space, and the shared parameter is to start a 16-bit program in the shared memory space. When the DOS program is running, we can also switch between full screen and window by pressing the <Alt+Enter” key.
Start command is a caller application, use the Start command to run DOS program under xp system, and then run the software we need. This operation brings a lot of convenience to our work. Interested users can Learn more.

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