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First post, by diman4

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Hey, I have dosbox mb6 and i need run program which have 4333 files. On windows me all work, but when i run it on windows 7 on dosbox my program dont see many files. Anyone help me?

Reply 1 of 4, by Jorpho

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You should try running vDosPlus. Alternatively, you can try booting MS-DOS in DOSBox, but that will require transferring your program to a hard disk image.

Reply 2 of 4, by diman4

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I tried with vdosplus, dosbox, dosbox megabuild6 but its all the same. I must try with ms dos on dosbox..

Reply 3 of 4, by mrau

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what program even? tried real dos on a vm?

Reply 4 of 4, by Jorpho

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diman4 wrote:

I must try with ms dos on dosbox..

Actually, no, that probably won't work either – this never would have worked in MS-DOS 6.22, so there's no reason to expect this to work in DOSBox either.

According to http://ask-leo.com/is_there_a_limit_to_what_a … y_can_hold.html , the maximum number of files that a directory can hold on a FAT16 partition is 512 (and substantially less if it's the root directory). So, if you want this to work in DOSBox, you'll need a FAT32-formatted disk image running DOS 7.1 from Windows 98, or some other version of DOS that supports FAT32, like DR-DOS or OpenDOS.

Needless to say, DOSBox was never intended for this purpose and you should probably use a virtual machine like VMware.