JSI Tip 1287. Forcedos.

Some MS-DOS applications are not recognized as MS-DOS programs, causing the application to start improperly an fail.

The Forcedos command, will start the application in the MS-DOS sub-system. The syntax is:

Forcedos [/d StartFolder] ProgramName [parameters]       where:

/d StartFolder  is required if the program is not in the current directory or in your PATH.

ProgramName is the name of the MS-DOS application.

parameters      to pass to the application.