Black Box Remote Emulator Card Software Installation, Installation/Pre-installation under DOS

5250 REMOTE EMULATOR CARD

5. Software Installation

This chapter contains instructions for installing the 5250 Remote Emulator Card’s software for use with DOS, Windows (under a DOS partition), or PC Support. You’ll take different kinds of actions to install, configure, and run this software, and we’ve used a different typestyle to highlight each kind of action, as shown in this key:

•Actions in boldface type are commands you’ll type in.

•Actions in outlined type are buttons or icons you’ll click on.

•Underlined actions are menu options you’ll select.

Before installing the software for use with with Windows or PC Support, you must pre-install it under DOS, as detailed in Section 5.1.

5.1 Installation/Pre-installation under DOS

NOTE

The instructions in this section assume drive A: is the diskette drive. If the diskette drive has been assigned a different letter, use that letter instead.

Before beginning to install the 5250 Remote Emulator Card’s software, make a backup copy of it:

1.Type DISKCOPY A: A: and follow the prompt.

2.Store the original disk in a safe place.

Now install the 5250 Remote Emulator Card’s software by copying it to your PC’s hard drive:

1.At the DOS prompt, create a directory named “5251R” under the root directory. Type:

C:[ENTER] CD\ [ENTER]

MD EM5251R [ENTER]

2.Insert the 5250 Remote Emulator Card’s software diskette into drive

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