HOW TO RUN A DOS-PROGRAM THAT WON'T RUN UNDER WINDOWS,

FOR INSTANCE THE PROGRAM SPEKT.EXE

Please consider first alternative D !

A) If you have a Dos Boot-CD and a CD-burner

1) Let Spektra.exe unpack itself and burn all the files onto a CD

2) Start your PC with the Boot-CD in place

3) Having started up DOS, take out the Boot-CD and put in the CD with Spectral program

4) Go to the correct volume for the CD-driver and call spekt.exe

5) It will start up and run nicely!

B) If you don't have a DOS Boot-CD but want to make you one

1) You need a PC with Floppy-drive and CD-burner.

2) Put a floppy in the drive and right-klick the icon of the drive

3) In the Menu, choose Format and mark "Make a MS-DOS Start-floppy"

4) After you have got it, copy onto it all the files of the Spektral program

5) Go to the CD-burner and burn a Start-CD from the Floppy

6) Use the CD you get to run the spekt-program (by having the CD in place when starting the PC and when you have arrived at A:\> write spekt and push Enter)

Note. You may, of course, equally well boot and run spekt.exe by use of the floppy, instead of producing a BootCD. But the CD can be used by some friend of yours, whose PC doesn't have a floppy drive.

C) You don't have a Boot-CD and don't have a PC with floppy drive. Try to get one on the web! For instance, you can by from PCbeginner.com their CD "Utilities Suite 2006", which contains a lot of useful programs for keeping your PC in good condition.

1) You can use that CD for DOS boot, by letting it be in place when you start your computer. You will arrive at a menu where you can choose "Boot to DOS" and then "WITH CD-ROM SUPPORT".

2) You will get information about the label assigned to your CD-driver (D: or E: or F: ....etc, depending on how many partitions and drivers you have)

3) Go to the CD-drive by writing that label, say, D:

4) Take out the Boot-CD and put instead in the CD containing the Spektral program

5) Write spekt.exe and push Enter

D) You may download DOSBox0.74 (free! From http://dosbox.com) install it and run the program. This method also works in case Vista, or a higher Windows version  is your OS.

1) Just follow the instructions submitted together with DOSBox.

For instance:  Make a mapp (in c: ) where you put all programs you want to run with DOSBox. Say, you call this mapp dosprog.   Next, start DOSBox. At the prompt z:  write  mount c c:\dosprog push Enter and then write spekt  and the program spekt will start (if you have put it, together with all its datafils,  into dosprog).