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Thanks Ed, they have been corrected.

To discover all type of links you can use open-source SageLinks utility: https://github.com/raspopov/SageLinks/releases

Hello, I am new on DosBox, I have Windows 10 and am trying to run simple asm file but it says “This program cannot be run in DodMode”…First DosBox was not opening but then I attached external device I-e mouse, now it is opening and I have mounted and everything but it gives this error when I run an asm file.
Please Help urgent..

Hi Huzaifah, in DOS you can only run compiled programs (.exe, .com) or batch scripts (.bat).

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000598.htm

Great and complete article! Also easy to follow.
I have one question..
When I connect with filezilla, I can also cd to the parent directories, view files and download them.
How to stop this? Tnx!

I found the answer in the comments, tnx

I’m getting following error:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo pon epam updetach

Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 /dev/pts/1
anon fatal[get_ip_address:pptp.c:437]: getaddrinfo(): No address associated with hostname
Modem hangup
Connection terminated.

What is wrong ?

Like another individual in the comment section, I too am having issues downloading King’s Quest 7. Every time I enter “install”(.bat) it says “Can’t find KQ7INST.001”. The file it says it can’t find IS in the folder. This is the second KQ7 file I’ve downloaded, each are from different sites (just in case one of the files were incomplete or bad). I’m just frustrated at this point. Any helpful tips in regards to this?

Hi tcoftw,

DOS is rather archaic and there was no standard way to install software onto it. So developers made their own install utilities and tools. Sometimes they included multiple tools for different tasks. So that install.bat could be to copy the game from the original CD-ROM onto a person’s hard drive and maybe useless for you. Have you tried running the game in DOSBOX instead of trying to install it before hand?

Otherwise you can buy the game from here. It will guarantee to work on modern computers.
http://www.gog.com/game/kings_quest_7_8

thank you very much!. Very useful for me :)

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i have windows 7 and im trying to play kings quest VII when i type in all the information in dos box it comes up and says this program requires microsft windows. i dont know what i am doing wrong please help

Hi Judy, I believe you are running the Windows 95 release of this game. There were multiple versions created for different platforms and systems of the era. Unfortunately DOSBox only works with DOS games, not Windows.

For the meta keys mentioned (_wpas, reddit, etc), there is not a standard list, per se. Each plugin can add any meta key and, in fact, any user can via “Custom Fields” in the WP admin. Keys preceded with an underscore are “private” and are not listed in the Custom Fields area of the wp-admin (on self-hosted sites at least). They’re meant for plugins to use to store data associated with a post. Keys without an underscore prefix would be displayed in the UI natively.

Thanks for mentioning this and you are correct. I was using WordPress.com as the source for this article and it has its own collection of plugins that I imagine are different to a core install of WordPress sourced from WordPress.org. I have updated the introduction to mention that fact. In the future I should probably go back this to the article and highlight the difference tags between core install & wp.com exports.

The protocol class is missing “l” on the class name

Fixed, thanks!

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When I imported my blog to WordPress, I’ve noticed that some comments were not imported correctly. It’s worth to mention that HTML tags are stripped in wp:comment_content.

Hi Michael, unfortunately, comments migration has always been problematic. Using the XML-based import feature on a WordPress.com blog will never precisely mirror the source blog. Comments do actually support HTML but some may get dropped or mangled. As XML is fussy about syntax and WordPress.com is more so on security with what it permits into its databases.

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