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First post, by simonkay

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Hi

Using DOSBox 0.74-1 on Mac OS X 10.9.4 64bit.

I type in the following commands:
Z:\>mount c /tmp/blah
Z:\>copy nul c:\blah.txt

And my DOSBox hangs.

On my Windows 7 x64 box, running DOSBox 0.74:
Z:\>mount c c:\dos
Z>\>copy nul c:\blah.txt

And it hangs here too. So it doesn't appear to be platform-specific.

I take it this is a bug. Is it a known bug? Where should I report it?

(Running real MS-DOS 6.22 under VirtualBox, COPY NUL filename results in "0 files copied", and the file is not created. So, it would be DOS-compatible for DOSBox to have an error here. But hanging is a bit too much.)

It's not stopping me from doing anything, but someone should fix it anyway.

Thanks
Simon

Reply 1 of 1, by Dominus

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I think null is not supported. And since no game needs this...
Remember Dosbox is not about being a perfect Dos emulator but about being a perfect Dos emulator for games 😉

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