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Special characters in file names seems not working on DosBox 0.74

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First post, by lfl_038

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Hi,

I have made a software under Turbo Pascal 4 which was running on MSDOS 6.2.
This software uses specials characters in the filename of the file used to save the configuration.
The filename is chr(255)+"FONC-DE.F"+chr(255).
The file provided could not be read under DosBox 0.74 so I tried to generate a new one under DosBox 0.74 without any success (same error).

I have read all DosBox documentation available but I did not find any answer.

Could you please confirm that DosBox does not accept special characters in filenames ?

If you want to test, a download zip file is available here or attached.

Thanks in advance,

Best regards.

Appr871Dos.zip

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Reply 2 of 4, by lfl_038

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Hi,

I just check the code, in fact the character used is not char(255) but is char(127).

It seems this character is not working in DosBox as, when I updated the code, removing these characters, the program is working (see attached).
So, can you confirm that char(127) is not allowed in a filename in DosBox ?

Thanks in advance,

Best regards.

Appr871DosBox.zip

Reply 3 of 4, by Qbix

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Yep, 127 is not our allowed list at the moment. Do you need to be on ?

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Reply 4 of 4, by lfl_038

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Thanks for your reply.
If you can add it in the allowed list, it could be great.
If, not, this is not critical as I could build a special version using file without this character.
Best regards.

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