ah! I see! Thank you Jim, of course it works!
Bye Davide Il giorno sab 20 set 2025 alle ore 02:11 Jim Hall via Freedos-user < [email protected]> ha scritto: > Or since you're using Linux, you can unzip it from Linux when you have > the virtual disk mounted, and extract the files directly into the > virtual disk. > > You have your disk mounted like this: > > > $ guestmount -a data.qcow2 -m /dev/sda1 ./mnt > > > I like to put the installer in a temporary directory, and run it from > there. So let's say your data.qcow2 is the C: drive for QEMU. Run > these two commands to (1) create the TEMP directory if it's not there, > and (2) unzip the As-Easy-As installer into C:\TEMP\ASEASY > > $ mkdir -v mnt/TEMP > $ unzip asa57.exe -d mnt/TEMP/ASEASY > > > That works for me. For example, from my Linux box, here's using unzip > to list the contents of the asa57.exe self-extracting archive: > > > $ unzip -l asa57.exe > Archive: asa57.exe > Length Date Time Name > --------- ---------- ----- ---- > 2239 03-02-1998 09:06 VENDOR.DOC > 187980 04-08-1997 07:35 ASA57U.EXE > 338561 08-07-1998 13:22 ASEASY.570 > 418 08-07-1998 15:25 FILE_ID.DIZ > 26727 08-07-1998 14:56 INSTALL.EXE > 2791 08-07-1998 15:24 ORDER.DOC > 171 08-07-1998 15:25 READ_ME.1ST > 405 08-07-1998 15:25 READ_ME.BAT > 2623 08-07-1998 15:25 UPGRADE.DOC > 50637 08-07-1998 15:25 VENDINFO.DIZ > 3271 02-18-1998 15:45 AGENT.DOC > --------- ------- > 615823 11 files > > > > And from my FreeDOS system: > > > D:\TEMP>unzip -l asa57.exe > Archive: asa57.exe > Length Date Time Name > --------- ---------- ----- ---- > 2239 03-02-1998 09:06 VENDOR.DOC > 187980 04-08-1997 07:35 ASA57U.EXE > 338561 08-07-1998 13:22 ASEASY.570 > 418 08-07-1998 15:25 FILE_ID.DIZ > 26727 08-07-1998 14:56 INSTALL.EXE > 2791 08-07-1998 15:24 ORDER.DOC > 171 08-07-1998 15:25 READ_ME.1ST > 405 08-07-1998 15:25 READ_ME.BAT > 2623 08-07-1998 15:25 UPGRADE.DOC > 50637 08-07-1998 15:25 VENDINFO.DIZ > 3271 02-18-1998 15:45 AGENT.DOC > --------- ------- > 615823 11 files > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I keep forgetting that TRIUS made a Windows-only self-extracting zip > > file for the DOS version of As-Easy-As. Oh the irony. So yes, you'll > > get that message if you try to run asa57.exe on DOS. > > > > Use the 'unzip' program on it, like it was a zip file. You can rename > > it from asa57.exe to asa57.zip if you like. Then you can unzip it and > > run the installer. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM Davide Erbetta via Freedos-user > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > after having read the very interesting book by Jim Hall about > "As-Easy-As" software I've decided to try the software; so, I've downloaded > it from the link suggested in the FreeDOS website: > > > > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20240527084029/http://triusinc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10&sid=2ed30802f5c185374381efde55d60eae > > > > > > and then: > > > > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20240527084029/http://www.triusinc.com/old_files/asa57.exe > > > > > > Then I've mounted my FreeDOS "hard drive", in linux, as I do usually: > > > > > > guestmount -a data.qcow2 -m /dev/sda1 ./mnt > > > > > > Then I've moved the asa75.exe in it, and started FreeDOS. > > > In FreeDOS, when I try to run asa57.exe I get the following message: > > > > > > "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." > > > > > > What am I missing ? > > > The same if I download it from: > > > https://archive.org/details/as-easy-as-version-5.7-for-dos > > > > > > I've downloaded in the past other DOS programs and moved them into > FreeDOS with the same procedure and I've never received that message. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any hint! > > > Best regards, > > > Davide > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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