Wrox Press

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Sep 4 21:10:32 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 02:03:31PM -0700, James Mcintosh wrote:
> I bought a combination book and software package from Wrox Press.
>  
> It emphasized strongly and repeatedly that it ran on DOS (MS-DOS, PC-DOS and DR-DOS) - no need for Windows 3.0, 3.1, 95, etc.
>  
> I telephoned their technical support countless times, trying to get it to work.
>  
> It turned out that the installation program needed Windows 95.
>  
> The technical support people had no idea that it required Windows 95.
>  
> Somehow they did not tell the software developers to make installation too run on DOS.

Wow this thread loves heading off in different directions. :)

I wonder if you could do the install from wine and then run it in dosbos.

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