I'm running a xmas light show controlling 81 lights from the parallel and s erial ports, using a DOS window in win98. Works fine when run from win98 in side a DOS window, but seems to hang up after a couple hours when run from a floppy that just boots to a command prompt and runs the program from the autoexec file. I wanted to run the program automatically, so I didn't need a keyboard or screen or mouse. Works fine for a couple hours and then hangs up, but not always in the same place.
Maybe there is an easier way of starting window98 and automatically running a DOS program? But that would require a screen and mouse to turn off the m achine. I'm trying to make it automatic so I can just switch it on and off.
-Bill