[450] Yagi max?

[John Foege]

Correction, do do a directory listing you have to type:

dir

And to change to a directory

cd

Woopsie...

Cheers,

John

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:09 AM, John Foege <john.foege at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Here is the best way to run Yagimax (and any of the old DOS programs) on
> modern operating systems. This is how I do it:
>
> 1) Download and install DOSBox
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/files/dosbox/0.74/DOSBox0.74-win32-installer.exe/download
>
> This is a DOS emulator for Windows (will work on XP, 2000, Vista, 7, etc.)
>
> 2) Make a directory on your hard drive where you will store all your old
> DOS programs, for instance:
>
> c:\dosprogs
>
> 3) Download YagiMAX 3.11
>
> http://xoomer.virgilio.it/ham-radio-manuals/yagim311.zip
>
> 4) Unzip the contents of the ZIP file to
>
> c:\dosprogs\yagimax
>
> 5) Now start up DOSBox. You will be dropped into a familiar old school
> looking DOS prompt. In order to access files on your machine, you need to
> mount them into DOSBox. The best way to understand this is with an example.
> At the emulated DOS prompt, type the following (assuming the dir that
> contains all your old DOS programs is c:\dosprogs as above):
>
> mount c c:\dosprogs
>
> 6) What this does is create an emulated C drive under DOSBox that points
> to your real C drive, and specifically to the directory dosprogs on your C
> drive.
>
> 7) Now you will type:
>
> c:
>
> And hit enter to change to this emulated C drive in DOSBox.
>
> 8) Now you can do a directory listing using the DOS cd command, type cd
> and hit enter and you should see your yagimax directory.
>
> 9) cd yagimax to change into the yagimax directory
>
> 10) Hit cd and hit enter again and you should see the directory listing of
> all the yagimax files
>
> 11) Now to run yagimax you will type the executable name and hit enter:
>
> ym311
>
> And hit enter. Voila...Yagimax will be running. The only other thing about
> DOSBox that you will need to know is the following:
>
> When you are running a program like Yagimax that has mouse support and you
> click inside the program window, DOSBox will capture your mouse to that
> window. Your mouse will be "stuck" in the running DOS windows and you won't
> be able to release it back to Windows. This is normal. To tell DOSBox to
> release your mouse and give the mouse focus back to Windows, you have to
> hit CTRL+F10.
>
> If you have any questions or issues, please get in touch with me. This
> should work out for you just fine. Also to run any other programs like
> hairpin or dl6wu or whatever, you'd just exit back to the DOSBox prompt and
> run them from the command prompt as normal...
>
> To exit DOSBox you type in "exit" from the DOSBox command prompt and hit
> enter....
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Bob <n1ujs at toast.net> wrote:
>
>> Anyone send me a copy of Yagimax (including DL6WU) that will work
>> (without crashing) in XP?  John?
>>
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