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First post, by Spokes

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... for the life of me, I can't find out how to work the thing. I'm on mac OSX, which means my drive isn't called C:, or anything simple like that, and it's sure as hell not telling me. It's part of the sealed white box of things I don't 'need to know'. Anyway, anger at Steve Jobs aside, I think I've got the 'mount' thing working, (it replies with 'So a mount c c:\windows mounts windows directory as the c: drive in Dosbox' after I put in "mount c"~/desktop"), but when I try to cd to the folder, it tells me that it can't because one of the directories is over 8 characters long. Unfortunately, my user directory is called my name, and I'm not willing and not sure how to change that.

Any ideas? I'm flailing in frustration here, and my searches do nothing.

Reply 2 of 4, by eL_PuSHeR

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Reply 3 of 4, by Zorbid

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"~" is the path to your user directory so it shouldn't matter.

If you mount "~/desktop" as c, when you go to c: and type dir, you should see the content of your desktop, not the root directory of your hard disk.

If a directory on your desktop is longer than 8 chars, DOSBox will internally truncate it. For example "my long directory name" will be accessible as "mylong~1". You can see the exact name in the "dir" output, or by typing "cd" then the first few characters of the directory and use tab completion.

Reply 4 of 4, by MiniMax

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60 seconds guide to getting your game to run in DOSBox

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