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I use old wordperfect program 5.1 in dos because my clients use it. I can operate in windows xp but need new computer.

Dear,
It is not just the question of wordperfect program you use. but it is the question of other hardware, like printer, scanner, bluetooth etc(if u use) because if you brought these devices before vista came, your these devices will not work with vista and you will be in problem. Secondly, other softwares will either not run on vista or will run with error, say office xp always generates error before running on vista.

It will be better if you can buy a computer with windows xp.

The Chinese character system it originally used in DOS was ETen (ET3). When I bring up the ET3 character system and the application program under a DOS window it has flashing characters that are not Chinese.

Do you have any suggestions or ideas to try to get the application program to work under Windows?

A DOSBOX with CCDOS/UCDOS/ET3 will do the trick

I have a toshiba equium l20-197 which i need to format to reinstall windows xp pro, only problem is i cant now log into windows due to a fatal error, and i dont no how to get into ms dos to format the hard drive with out going in to windows first? does anyone have any ideas???
Thanks for the answer, now i have changed the start up program so it should boot from the os disc, but it doesnt make any difference, is there sumthing im missing at start up??

you can not format it from any part of the system, even the command prompt, which is NOT dos. It will be locked as it is a running system. You need to boot from the OS cd, and tell it to install. At the screen showing the partition use the D delete option to remove the partition and then the C create option to make a new one to install on.

I would like to create a bat file in C: suing dos comment. I don't rememver how.

Create using notepad. Save as file.bat in C:\