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Warcraft II

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First post, by whistler

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I was able to mount the CD and the new directory that i was going to install it to with no issue. When i view the files on the CD without dosbox I can see the file names correctly. They look like this:
Custom PUDs
Data
Destop Folder
etc etc etc...
When I look at the files on the CD from dosbox the names are totally wrong. They look like this:
CUSTOM~1
DATA
DESKTO~3

I can not change directory no matter what i do and cant run the install files. What's wrong here?

Reply 1 of 4, by vladstamate

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Is this Warcraft II for Mac? If yes then DosBox cannot help you.

Plus DosBox is basically DOS and in DOS (unlike Windows 95+ or MacOS) file names are 8.3 so the names will be truncated.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Azarien

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DOSBox does not support LFN (long filenames).
There's unofficial patch somewhere on this forum, but I don't think that would solve your problem.
A DOS version of the game certainly would not require support for LFN to install.

Reply 4 of 4, by collector

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Also note that this forum is for the emulation *of* Macs, not emulation *on* Macs.

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