Realworld 8.0

[gs850gx]

I am trying to run Realworld Accounting Ver 8.0 in vdos and am getting nothing but two lines saying "Bad command or file name"

I installed vdos at C:\, copied my working RWC80 folder to it, and then call c:\RWC80\rw.bat in the vdos autoexec.bat.

Worked on a Windows 7 32 bit machine but would like to move it to a Windows 11 machine using vDos.

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

gs850gx

[Jos]

Seems something external isn’t found by autoexec.txt or rw.bat, my guess would be C:\RWC80\RW.BAT itself.

Add a line with WAIT at the beginning of RW.BAT to verify it’s found/started, and go from there. Eventually with WAIT at other lines.

Jos

[gs850gx]

Thankyou.

Rw.bat appears to found.

I am sending copies of the chain of files that are called.

and... Thanks Again!

@echo off
rem *************************************************************************
rem * FILE NAME: RW.BAT *
rem * FILE DATE: 4/28/99 *
rem * FILE DESC: This is the standard RWC startup batch file. *
rem * *
rem * (C) Copyright 1999 by RealWorld Corporation. *
rem * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this material may be reproduced or *
rem * transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or *
REM * otherwise, without written permission from RealWorld Corporation. *
rem *************************************************************************

:BEGIN

RUN80R RWC %1

:END

Following is the RUN80R.bat File:

@echo off
rem *************************************************************************
rem * FILE NAME: RUN80.BAT
rem * FILE VERSION 8
rem * FILE DESC: This is the RWC startup batch file when user count is needed.
rem * CHANGE LOG
rem *
rem * (C) Copyright 1998 by RealWorld Corporation. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
rem *************************************************************************

:BEGIN
COMMAND /E:2048 /C RWCRUNR %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
rem /E:xxxx must be at least as large as the config.sys 'shell=...' value
rem xxxx must be evenly divisible by 16
COMMAND /C EXIT

:END

 Following is the RWCRUNR.bat file

@echo off
rem *************************************************************************
rem * FILE NAME: RWCRUN.BAT *
rem * FILE DATE: 5/02/98 *
rem * FILE DESC: This is the standard RWC startup batch file for MF-ISAM. *
rem * *
rem * (C) Copyright 1998 by RealWorld Corporation. *
rem * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this material may be reproduced or *
rem * transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or *
REM * otherwise, without written permission from RealWorld Corporation. *
rem *************************************************************************

:BEGIN
if "%1"=="" goto NOPKG
Set COBDIR=.
Set COBSW=+M+M2

echo.
if exist XM.EXE goto RUN
if not exist XM.EXE
echo.
echo XM requested but XM.EXE not found!
Pause
cls
echo.

:RUN
XM +J +R RUNRW -F %1 %3 %4 %5
if not exist REGCNT.DAT goto FINISH
XM +J +R RUNRW -F CLRUSER %3 %4 %5
goto FINISH

:FINISH

Set COBSW=
goto CLEANUP

:NOPKG

echo.
echo You must type a valid batch file name to start up a RealWorld package.
echo For example, RW or RWAR. Please consult your User Manual.
pause
cls

:CLEANUP

if not exist LINK\*.* goto WORK
cd LINK
..\RWCDEL *.*
cd ..

:WORK

if not exist RWWRK\*.* goto END
cd RWWRK
..\RWCDEL *.*
cd ..

:END

[Jos]

That’s a rather cryptic bunch of batch files.
No idea why RUN80R.BAT starts a second command line processor, neither what COMMAND /C EXIT is supposed to do.

Change
COMMAND /E:2048 /C RWCRUNR %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
To:
RWCRUNR %1 %2 %3 %4 %5

And eventually delete or rem-out (it won't be executed now)
COMMAND /C EXIT

Jos

[gs850gx]

OK, a little headway but no cookie.

By placing all the files in the root of the vDos folder (instead of the rwc80 folder in vDos) and removing the "command" item you mentioned, it now gets to the first line after ":run" in the script below and then freezes.

Somebody went out of their way to muddy this up for sure. Anyways, here is the file at stops in:

rem @echo off
rem *************************************************************************
rem * FILE NAME: RWCRUN.BAT *
rem * FILE DATE: 5/02/98 *
rem * FILE DESC: This is the standard RWC startup batch file for MF-ISAM. *
rem * *
rem * (C) Copyright 1998 by RealWorld Corporation. *
rem * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this material may be reproduced or *
rem * transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or *
REM * otherwise, without written permission from RealWorld Corporation. *
rem *************************************************************************

:BEGIN
if "%1"=="" goto NOPKG
Set COBDIR=.
Set COBSW=+M+M2

echo.
if exist XM.EXE goto RUN
if not exist XM.EXE
echo.
echo XM requested but XM.EXE not found!
Pause
cls
echo.

:RUN
XM +J +R RUNRW -F %1 %3 %4 %5
if not exist REGCNT.DAT goto FINISH
XM +J +R RUNRW -F CLRUSER %3 %4 %5
goto FINISH

:FINISH

Set COBSW=
goto CLEANUP

:NOPKG

echo.
echo You must type a valid batch file name to start up a RealWorld package.
echo For example, RW or RWAR. Please consult your User Manual.
pause
cls

:CLEANUP

if not exist LINK\*.* goto WORK
cd LINK
..\RWCDEL *.*
cd ..

:WORK

if not exist RWWRK\*.* goto END
cd RWWRK
..\RWCDEL *.*
cd ..

:END

[Jos]

XM is a DOS extender, discussed here: vdos.proboards.com/thread/201/unhandled-call-9600-error-microfocus.

Due to the requirement of a real (and supported) BIOS, it won’t function in DOS emulators like vDos or DOSBox.

Your best option would be to turn the Windows 7 PC into a virtual one and run that in Windows 11.
Or you could contact assassin, perhaps he found a solution after all.

Jos

[gs850gx]

Thankyou for the reply Jos!

So I know to stop spinning my wheels on this one.

Next I will be trying an Alpha 4 ver7 app on a network, it is my understanding this should work.

Have a good day!

gs850gx