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Small "bug" in the internal dos

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First post, by aquasync3

Posted on 2005-02-02, 00:27

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Not exactly a big problem, but some games/progs have both an exe and bat with the same name, and tell you to just type the name to run it. In real dos this runs the batch file, but currently in dosbox it is the other way around. Not sure what the priority of .com's are, but that could be easily checked too.
Of course you can just call the .bat explicitly, but it'd be nice to fix this...

Reply 1 of 14, by DosFreak

Posted on 2005-02-02, 03:07

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This goes in the Dosbox forum.

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Reply 2 of 14, by Qbix

Posted on 2005-02-02, 08:42

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as far as I know are our priorities correct.

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Reply 3 of 14, by dvwjr

Posted on 2005-02-02, 08:46

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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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Reply 4 of 14, by avatar_58

Posted on 2005-02-02, 17:09

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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...

Reply 5 of 14, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2005-02-02, 21:16

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

Reply 6 of 14, by Qbix

Posted on 2005-02-02, 21:19

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only one way to find out :0

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Reply 7 of 14, by XulChris

Posted on 2005-02-02, 22:12

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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.

Reply 8 of 14, by MiniMax

Posted on 2005-02-02, 22:22

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"There can only be one..."

An .EXE and an .BAT

The .EXE takes precedence:

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Reply 9 of 14, by Guest

Posted on 2005-02-02, 23:43

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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! 😮

Reply 10 of 14, by avatar_58

Posted on 2005-02-02, 23:46

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

Reply 11 of 14, by MiniMax

Posted on 2005-02-03, 00:36

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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.