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Posted by no ho
Mar 28, 2012 at 02:45 AM
I’m an old fan of MaxThink DOS. The Windows versions of MaxThink I’ve tried by they just don’t do it.
Well, I found my old Win98 laptop and she still works!
I’ve copied all teh DOS Maxthink files into C:\MAX but when I start her up I get a quick splash of the MaxThink logo on the black dos background and then it goes blank like it’s trying to load but instead up pops a small dos window with the following msg:
“FILE CONFIG91.MT not found program terminated_”
Any ideas what the problem may be? I haven’t messed w/ Windows 98 and / or DOS in years
Best,
Norm
Posted by Cassius
Mar 29, 2012 at 05:44 AM
Have you created a pif file—now known as a shortcut to an MS DOS program? You have to specify settings in it. My DOS programs worked weell in Win98 and 2000, but not XT.
-cassius
Posted by no ho
Apr 5, 2012 at 07:42 PM
No I did not and know nothing about “pif” or the needed settings. But I know what to look for at least. Many thx for pointing me a direction Cassius.
Best, Norm
Cassius wrote:
>Have you created a pif file—now known as a shortcut to an MS DOS program? You have to
>specify settings in it. My DOS programs worked weell in Win98 and 2000, but not
>XT.
>
>-cassius
Posted by Gary Carson
Apr 6, 2012 at 03:22 PM
The only description of the MT file extension I’ve been able to find describes it as a “miscellaneous file type,” which is useless and probably doesn’t apply in this case.
I’m just guessing, but it’s possible that the MT was derived from (M)ax(T)hink. This could be an application specific configuration file, i.e., a file that contains various default settings for the program. If that’s the case, you’d need to find the MaxThink documentation describing the file contents (if the documentation exists).
One possibility that might or might not get you anywhere would be to create a text file with a couple of empty lines or just random text and rename it CONFIG.MT (or whatever the exact file name was). Then, if you launch MaxThink, you MIGHT get some error messages that would give you a clue about what’s supposed to be in the file. Or Windows 98 could explode in your face. I vaguely remember using 98 and it was prone to sudden explosions.
Posted by no ho
Apr 6, 2012 at 10:43 PM
Thx Gary for ur efforts.
The MT file is indeed a specific configurations file for MaxThink and the config92.mt file is currently in c:\Max which as best as I understand these things, is exactly where it should be.
I dug out the old DOS MaxThink manuals and tried a few things mentioned re: what to add to autoexec.bat and config.sys but again, got the exact same error msg… can not find bla bla.
BTW, Cassius, I tried setting up a PIF and got the same result.
Thx again guys.
Ugh,
Norm