This goes in the Dosbox forum.

Moving...

as far as I know are our priorities correct.

The way DOSBOX works is the way that real DOS works. Since DOS 2.x the Command.com execution order has been *.COM, *.EXE, *.BAT.

See this older thread here on the same subject. The *.BAT before *.COM and *.EXE went out with PCDOS 1.x in the early 1980s.

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Hm....thats odd. Playing many sierra games I am sure .bat loaded first before the others even in the later dos 6. 😖 In fact I'm sure it did...

Agreed. I remember that too, that batch files took preference. But, who is right? I have not documented myself.

only one way to find out :0

I seem to remember the order being .BAT .EXE .COM. Even if that is not what the original DOS did, it is the order which makes most sense.

"There can only be one..."

An .EXE and an .BAT

The .EXE takes precedence:

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Is bochs the exact same as original dos prompt? I'm not argueing my guess but I just remember haveing many games which had batch files in the dir with the same name and they took preference (you could tell because they always had echo off and soemtimes %1 %2 %3)

Oh well, you get corrected every day! 😮

sorry...that /\ was me I just hit post without logging in 😅

Anonymous wrote:

Is bochs the exact same as original dos prompt?

Define: "original dos" 😀

Bochs is a pure CPU/screen/sound/network/disk emulator. It will (theoritically) run any OS you throw at it. The shoots I took, was with Bochs running DOS from Win95 OSR2.

Just tested in 2K and 98SE.

.COM and .EXE come before .BAT

On the other hand, it has always seem stupid to me naming a batch file with the same name as its EXE counterpart. 😁

Oops, I could swear I double-checked this before posting, but I can't seem to replicate it now... 😒