On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 13:36, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > More than once, I saw a motherboard manufucturer (I think it is ASUS) > claiming to have FreeDOS exe to upgrade the BIOS > but found the programs were Windows exe and would not run on FreeDOS.
Question: Is it possible the download is a Windows self-extracting archive, and inside it, there is an upgrade image file and a DOS flash tool? Have you checked? Yes, this would on the surface appear to be a foolish thing for them to do, *but* 64-bit Windows will not run a DOS or 16-bit Windows self-extractor, so they may not have an easy choice. Non-technical users (that is, most of them) would not know what to do with a Zip file. If double-clicked Windows does not extract it but mount it as a virtual folder -- resulting in a DOS program not being able to see the contents of that folder, and also not be able to execute. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
