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Option to add parameter when starting dosbox

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First post, by littlesat

Posted on 2011-06-14, 06:08

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What I miss is an option to add a parameter to dosbox. I have a work-a-round to create a bat file and run that one, but it would be nice to add parameters so the work-a-round is not required anymore...

e.g.

now I create a bat file...
test.bat ->
dosomething inputfile.txt

but it would be nice to have
dosbox c:/testfiles/dosomething -parameter inputfile.txt

Is this possible or do I have to live with my work-a-round?

Reply 1 of 2, by Qbix

Posted on 2011-06-14, 06:55

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use the -c option

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Reply 2 of 2, by Zorbid

Posted on 2011-06-14, 06:56

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You could use the -c command:

dosbox -c "mount c c:/testfiles/" -c "c:" -c "dosomething inputfile"

Not very elegant, but it would work.

Otherwise, I think that it should be possible to write a .bat file that accepts a cleaner command line and translates it into something DOSBox understand, but I'm not good enough at batch scripting.

edit: Qbix beat me to it 😀

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