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DOS program in Windows 2000 - Shortcut?

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by acrd0197cas

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Hello allo,
I have an old DOS program that I installed in Windows 2000 under the Command Prompt. In order to run the program, I need to go to a Command prompt and type in the location of the file and then run it that way. I tryed to create a shorcut from within windows explorer. This does not work. Is there a way that I can creat a .cmd file inorder to automate typing in the path and running the program? Any help is appreciated.

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by opatzg9

Make a folder c:\batch
create a file dosprog.bat in c:\batch
edit dosprog.bat
put in the following lines with path/program properly written out for you dos application

c:
cd\path to program\
program

save and exit
make the batch file your shortcut

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