"or the like" means something like FreeDOS. May I suggest the Berkeley utilities [unix ports for 16-bit DOS]? Now free and in the public domain, they can be installed one tiny independent module at a time. A complete list is here http://reimagery.com/fsfd/unix.htm#unixutils [about half way down]. …

Here is what I mean: The Autoexec.bat: -------------------------- MOUNT A A:\ -t floppy -------------------------- -In the Autoexec section in the dosbox.conf is: ----------------------------------------------------- @autoexec.bat ----------------------------------------------------- With this the …

why you want to mount a drive without a disk in it. I would like the user to have the same experience with DOSBox that she had with her existing system. That is, she starts the program the same way each time and does not have to insert a diskette unless/until the program needs it. No error messages …

can you just mount a folder as your floppy? Yes, but then the user has to find and copy the file(s) from the diskette to that folder [or I have to write a script to do it - which involves knowing the path(s) and the filename(s) in advance]. Leaving a diskette in the drive all the time is a lot less …

In the autoexec section in the conf file I mount the right drive and execute the autoexec.bat. This MOUNT A A:\ -t floppy is the entry I already had in the [Autoexec] section of the DOSBox -conf for this app. If there is a diskette in the floppy drive, the program starts normally. If there is no …

Is there a way to define a floppy as 'optional' [or defer mounting] so that MOUNT A A:\ -t floppy doesn't trigger an error at -conf time if no diskette is present? I hope I'm not missing something obvious.

A "dir" in an empty directory shows no files, as it should. A "dir NUL" in the same directory, however, shows the pseudo-file NUL [which DOS "pretends" exists in every directory] as an actual zero-byte file. I must admit that it has been almost 20 years since I worked intensively with actual DOS, …

ripsaw8080 wrote: I know exactly what I meant. As did I.

In DOSBox, copy COMMAND.COM from the Z: drive to the root of the C: drive. Brilliant! Problem [apparently] solved - although I haven't yet tested every input dialog and program function exhaustively. This has saved me hours of work with the debugger - which I was only just downloading. Thank you!! …

ripsaw8080 wrote: BTW, if you plan to use the program's printing features Luckily, I don't. All output is sent to files which are published to a web site and/or edited/printed in Windows. Thanks for the reference, though. And thanks again for your attention 😀

Do you see anything in what I did that differs from what you are doing? If not, I suspect a problem in how the software was installed. Although it is a DOS program, there is a Win32 installer that takes you into a command console program to install. I installed to C:\ACBLSCOR, then copied the …

Using official DOSBox 0.74, I tried "Backup Game files" after creating a Game (so there was something to process), and it asks for a Backup Location. If I enter a directory that doesn't already exist then it says the location is invalid, but if I enter a directory that does exist then it is …

Online docs for this program (thanks, Google... *ahem*) suggest that when prompted to import, for instance, you need to "Enter the letter of your diskette drive (A: or B: )". if it's expecting a floppy disk, then, try mounting that backups folder as drive A (use -t floppy). or if that doesn't work, …

Been through many of the menu options, but don't have any real data, so most of the complaints are about that. What is an "internal" vs. "external" path as far as this program is concerned? Also, what menu options take you to a prompt that is not accepting paths that appear to be valid? Thank-you! …

can you access the folder backups when in the dosbox shell ? And here is an interesting [to me anyway] development: it turns out that the prompts for pathnames exhibit two different behaviors: A. prompts for "internal" paths DO accept \BACKUPS [as well as \ACBLSCOR \ACBLSCOR\GAMEFILE GAMEFILE\ - …

Qbix wrote: can you access the folder backups when in the dosbox shell ? Yes. A "dir" at the C:\ level shows it, a "cd" changes to it, an "echo" can then create a file in it, and finally a "type" displays the content of the file just created.

The application installs on Win7-64 and runs almost perfectly. [Brilliant work, DOSBox group!]. The only imperfection I have found is quite puzzling. Here is the folder structure: C:\MOUNTC\ACBLSCOR\GAMEFILE C:\MOUNTC\BACKUPS My custom .conf file [which I can see is executing properly] contains …