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Hi

I recently got a CD from the hospital with my MRI scans. Unfortunately it's designed to run in Win 2000 or XP.

The CD is meant to Auto run but the 'read me' file says that if it does not then I should doubleclick on the 'RunViewer.bat' file.

I've created a WinXP bottle and tried to run the 'RunViewer.bat' program but nothing happens.

I've installed things like IE7 and other runtime support components but can't get it to run.

Anyone got any suggestions. I've also tried it in a Win 2000 bottle too, same result.

Cheers.

Hi,

The ,bat file will be a plaintext file, and will contain
the actual program name of the viewer exe and which file it's
trying to open. Without seeing the batch file itself, it's near
impossible to guess what you're looking at...but in basic terms
it's just the DOS form of a shellscript/startup.ini to launch
another program. If you know nothing about these kind of things,
(and considering most .bat files are small) just paste the
contents of it back here if you get stuck...

Cheers!

It may be easiest to use the Run Command to run the batch file. I think it should work to use the Browse button to pick the .bat file and just run that. If that doesn't seem to work for some reason, you can insert "start" and a space before the path.

If that still doesn't work, you can run the command "wineconsole cmd" to get a Windows-style command prompt. Then, you can issue commands to locate and run the .bat file.

Hi, thanks for the help guys.

I figured it out from the first bit of advice saying how the .bat file is merely a pointer to the .exe file.

I opened the .bat in Text Edit and sure enough it gave me the name of the program I was looking for buried deep on the CD I had from the hospital and with a completely unexpected and non descriptive name!

Anyhow, I opened Crossover and using the Run Command pointed it in the direction of said .exe file and hey presto all works 😊

Thanks for your help. Mark.