DOS commands from UNIX command prompt

John Steczkowski stecz at hotwheel.dell.com
Thu Nov 1 02:33:18 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.
| 
| Bill Miskovetz

Make sure that you $HOME/vpix/vpix.cnf file says to put the vpix.img file
in a directory that is readable and writaeble by you.  Generally it should
go in $HOME/vpix.

John Steczkowski
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