Old Dos Program

HI all
I've got an old dos program that has a feature that I cannot get to work in DosBox. Of course it just so happens to be the most important Part.
Has any one got a way to run a old dos system in Full Screen Mode as a bundle?
This would be most useful.
Any Help would be most appreciated.
thanks
john

Cheers for your help spond
Also found this myself
http://www.mydigitallife.info/workar...windows-vista/
Think workaround 2 will be way forward for me
Cheers again

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