Quincy Center for Technical Education
Computer Technology Department

Forcedos

Starts the specified program in the MS-DOS subsystem. This command is necessary only for those MS-DOS programs not recognized as such by Windows 2000.

forcedos [/d directory] filename [parameters]

Parameters

/d directory

Specifies the current directory for the specified program to use.

filename

Specifies the program to start. If not in the current directory or Windows 2000 path, you must specify the drive letter or directories to the program.

parameters

Specifies parameters to pass to the program.