I've found solution to my problem in this thread : HOW-TO Use the FOR command (+ other missing DOS commands) & automate ISO mounting.

Thanks guys.

I was about to point you to my thread, but you've already found it. I'm glad that it helped someone out. I wasn't sure because no one ever replied to it 😀.

And for your information, recent versions of DOSBox SVN-lfn (like vDosPlus's internal shell) has a built-in FOR command. An example:

for %f in (*.iso *.cue) do set cdlist=%cdlist% %f

vDosPlus by default uses the 4DOS 8.00 shell, so advanced options of the FOR command like /F are natively supported by this shell. For DOSBox you have to call 4DOS externally instead in order to support such options.

Wengier

Personally, I'd like to see this command implemented in DosBox. Before anybody says, "Dosbox is only for games", here's an example of a game that needs better implementation of batch commands: Super-VGA Harrier. While the game works fine in DosBox, the installer is a batch file, containing For, and does not.

Since this command is already implemented in DOSBox SVN-lfn, if only DOSBox developers want to add it to the official build...

Wengier wrote:

Since this command is already implemented in DOSBox SVN-lfn, if only DOSBox developers want to add it to the official build...

I wouldn't expect that. No or next no games require LFN.

collector wrote:

Wengier wrote:

Since this command is already implemented in DOSBox SVN-lfn, if only DOSBox developers want to add it to the official build...

I wouldn't expect that. No or next no games require LFN.

I was only talking about the FOR command in this version though. Even though this build has built-in LFN support (obviously), the implementation of the FOR command (and many additional features like its mouse copy/paste support) is not dependent on the LFN features...

Wengier

Wengier wrote:

And for your information, recent versions of DOSBox SVN-lfn (like vDosPlus's internal shell) has a built-in FOR command.

I didn't realize that. Thanks for the info and the work to include the command.

collector wrote:

I wouldn't expect that. No or next no games require LFN.

But having LFN support in the shell would be very useful to quickly cd between directories on disk.
Having to deal with all those progra~1 is so annoying.

I aggree that LFN API implementation is not needed for games.

Azarien wrote:

But having LFN support in the shell would be very useful to quickly cd between directories on disk.
Having to deal with all those progra~1 is so annoying.

Everything under a mounted folder should conform to the DOS 8.3 filename convention. If you really need LFN support you should probably be using something other than DOSBox, like vDosPlus.

collector wrote:

Everything under a mounted folder should conform to the DOS 8.3 filename convention

"Should"... but why? It surely doesn't have to under Windows 9x.

And more often than not, I'm mounting the whole disk, just out of convenience.

No LFN in MS-DOS 5.x (DOSBox), no games or applications depending on LFN.
You could instead start Windows CMD and useful quickly CD all day long.

Azarien wrote:

And more often than not, I'm mounting the whole disk, just out of convenience.

Please run

FORMAT C: 😈

This thread is about the FOR command. It is better to discuss elsewhere about other features like LFN support...