Windows 10 on a windows XP network

[hondacub]

Hello,

I am running a old dos point of sale program on a network
running windows xp computers.
I would like to add in a new windows 10 to the network
and map to the computer running the old dos program so
it will run on the new windows 10 computer
Not sure how do that...
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks for your time

Mike

[Jos]

If the POS program runs at one PC and the data is only locally stored there: Copy its folder(s) to the folder (C:\vDos?) you installed vDos to. Then modify autoexec.txt so your program is started with vDos.

If the data and eventually the program is on a server, or a PC acting as one: Assign the designated DOS drive letter to the network share by USE DOS_Drive_Letter: \\servername\sharename and put in autoexec.txt and add the commands you used before to start the program.

Jos

[hondacub]

Hello,

Here is what I have in the autoexec...


use M: \\dell200parts\inv\

M:

inv.exe

exit

It loads and runs the program..
One small issue is the time it takes to run a report
from the DOS program...
It takes around 10 to 15 seconds on the main computer
when I run it through VDOS it takes 2 to 3 mins
Is there some setting I should change?

Thanks
Mike

[Jos]

The relative slowness would be caused by:
1. The main PC gets the data off a fast hard drive, and since that Windows instance controls it, Windows can also cache the disk operations. In contrast to the workstation that has to do with a relatively slow network connection, and cannot do any caching.
2. If the report involves an large amount of CPU operations, like calculations on data, the slowness of the emulated CPU adds some extra lag.

You could have a look at TaskManager if vDos actually running at peak performance during the report. There’s then no setting to improve that.

Jos