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First post, by Pan

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Hi everybody

Has any noticed that some of the Dosbox commands seem to be case-sensitive? As far as I recall, the original commands in Dos could be typed in any case without any problems. But I can't quite remember to be sure.

As a example, if you type

CYCLES=MAX

then

CYCLES

will show MAX, but the cycle count will remain at the original value. I'm not sure if the same applies to the core, but it may do.

Not a very significant issue, but thought I should mention it out of interest 😀

Reply 1 of 4, by eL_PuSHeR

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I am not entirely sure but I think it's CYCLES MAX (without the equal sign).

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Reply 2 of 4, by Pan

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Entering the command with or without the equals sign are both acceptable. However, if the command is given in capitals, then it seems to set the cycles to 3000 instead of max.

I should add that CYCLES=max works, even though CYCLES=MAX does not.

I think this thread should of been left in the Development forum by the way as it potentially relates to continuing developments within Dosbox.

Reply 3 of 4, by wd

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Unhandled settings have a default, thus the cycles option being case
sensitive results in cycles=3000 if you set it to MAX, FUNNYVAL, invalid_thing
and others. I'm sure you can work around it by not using capslock when
entering max.

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