First post, by emendelson
This has nothing to do with games, so I certainly don't expect the devs to take any interest, but I wonder if anyone else can make sense of this puzzling thing.
In DOSBox for OS X/macOS (NOT for Windows), if I set cycles=max in the conf file, then WordPerfect for DOS's built-in directory list (the List Files feature) finds only a small number of files in a directory, not the entire list if the directory contains a fairly large number of files. For example, if a DIR at the DOSBox commnd line shows 136 files in a directory (which is the correct number), WordPerfect's built-in directory list shows only the first 34 files.
When I comment out the cycles= line, WordPerfect shows the full list of files in its internal directory list.
Again, the full list appears at the DOSBox command line; only part of the list in the WordPerfect List Files feature.
Does anyone have any idea of why this might happen? I'm asking mostly out of curiosity, but maybe the answer will be worth knowing for development purposes.