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Commands... they don't work?

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First post, by Inziladun

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Ugh, well I know this has been asked before, but I can't get the darn search function to work 😵

And none of the FAQs that i've read covered this... well anyways, In the readme it says "Windows Users must open cmd.exe or command.com or edit the shortcut to dosbox.exe for this."

What's this mean? When I type "command.com" into dosbox it just gives me the same message as when it starts back up (the, type INTRO, blah blah thing)

Any help?? 😅

Reply 1 of 6, by Qbix

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uhm
start:run:cmd.exe
(start in startmenu)

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Reply 2 of 6, by Guest

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Yeah, ok. The commands still don't work with Cmd.exe running in the background.

Reply 3 of 6, by Qbix

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you have to type them in the cmd.exe ?

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Reply 5 of 6, by HunterZ

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Whatever it is you're trying to do would be much more easily accomplished by way of a shortcut if you don't know how to use the command line to run programs.

EDIT: Then again, if you don't know how to use a command line interface then you should use a front-end to DOSBox, such as D-Fend.

Reply 6 of 6, by Inziladun

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Ok, i've downloaded D-Fend and things are a lot more user-friendly. Thanks for the help, guys.

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