DOS commands from UNIX command prompt

Pete Holsberg pjh at mccc.uucp
Fri Nov 2 13:25:00 AEST 1990


In article <297 at abhg.UUCP> misko at abhg.UUCP (William Miskovetz) writes:
=I'm running ISC 2.2 and vpix 1.02.  If I try to execute a DOS
=command from the UNIX command prompt, I get the following error message:
=
=  Cannot open file for saving virtual PC state
=
=I get this message after I see the vpix startup messages.  I then
=get put back at my UNIX prompt.  
=
=Anyone know what file it is having trouble writing?  Not that I
=issue a lot of DOS commands from the UNIX prompt, but once in a
=while I'd like to be able to do this.  Thanks for any help.

I seem to recall having a problem like this and found that uninstalling
and then reinstalling VPix made the problem go away.

Pete
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