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- From: ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones)
- Subject: Re: What is the best way to run DOS apps?
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:01:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.170119.24910@Celestial.COM>
- References: <12NOV199216290800@utkvx1.utk.edu>
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- In <12NOV199216290800@utkvx1.utk.edu> mwaugh@utkvx1.utk.edu (marcie) writes:
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- >My sincerest apologies for posting out of unmittigated ignorance, but I'm in
- >a time crunch and need some advice! Is there an application that will run
- >a DOS application under HP-UX 8.0 (on 9000/700 machine). The application is
- >one that uses a modem and deals with the creation of PCX files. To be
- >precise, it is AccuWeather's application for accessing the weather, which
- >consists of both ASCII text and PCX format maps. The interface is very
- >unsophisticated and I am finding DOS to be a *pain* to deal with to manipulate
- >the files we recieve, and also it's difficult to automate the dialing.
- >I only have information that SoftPc is a "dog", and am wanting to avoid
- >something that is messy, kludgey, and invasive on our nice (working) system.
- >Thanks in advance....
-
- Marcie,
- You might look into a product called PC Interface from Locus Computing.
- This will allow you to network the PC to the HP, such that files stored
- by the PC are actually on the HP. Manipulate from the easy side.
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