California Surveyors Forums

Hello Friends,

after a 20 years hiatus, I am trying to get back into civil engineering, I have an original softcopy of autocad 10 and DCA that I bought in 1993, and it still works, Id like to use it for a while to re-learn the business.

I did not save the books, I need some help getting the autoexec.bat file and HDD set up right so that the autocad and DCA can "call" the external executables. As you probably recall, setting up these boot-up files is critical to getting DOS programs to work.

do you have and autocad/DCA DOS manuals to consult ? I just need to know how to set up the files so it will work. I know all the functions of ACAD and DCA,

thanks

Andrew L. Rein, PE

Autoexec.

Wow, you must have found a near antique computer at the same place you found the ACAD/DCA disks.

I liked the simplicity of ACAD 10 and DCA, but like Lzeman said, it's irrelevant now. You can't get support. You probably can't even find the hardware should part of your system, like a tablet (for you younger folks, not like an Ipad or a Galaxy, but a physically unwieldly but easy to use pointing device predating the mouse), a monitor or a floppy drive (haven't seen one of those in years) fail.

But if it's all you got for now and you're not in a position to get anything else at the moment, I think all you need to do in the autoexec is ensure that the path to the executable files and the root directory for your data files is listed.

If the installation doesn't automatically do it, you probably also will want to write an acad.bat file that calls up the executable file to run the program. That way you don't have to navigate to the directory with the executable, but just type in "acad" at the C: prompt to run it.

Dang. It's been so long.

Andy

Where are you.

I have notes from a class I took in 1995 Autocad for surveyors and AdCADD civil survey version 12 cogo reference manual. We are talking about ~1.5 inches of paper here. more than a ream.

acadr12.bat
SET ACAD=C:\ACAD\SUPPORT;C:\ACAD\FONTS;C:\ACAD\ADS
SET ACADCFG=C:\ACAD
SET ACADDRV=C:\ACAD\DRV
C:\ACAD\ACAD %1 %2

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conf386.bat
cfig386 acad -clear -swapchk off -maxswfsize 30000 -minswfsize 100000 -nopgexp
cfig386 acad -vscan 20000
cfig386 acad -dem
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I think acad.exe -r goes directly to config mode

thanks for the help,
is the command the same for autocad 10 ?