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Date - Setting the date for DOSBox only

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First post, by Graham21

Posted on 2019-12-08, 04:40

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Hello All,

I searched for the solution but found too many things with the word "date" in them.

I'm loading an old program, nothing sexy or interesting.

It loads just fine in DOSBox - amazing, after all these years - great job boys!!!

But, I need to set the date to work around the built in securiety we put in there back in 1995.

On an isolated box (old ass Toshiba running Win7), I can set the system date and move forward.

But, I'm trying to get some work done on my main box so I can't set the system time.

Here's the question:
- How can I set the date in DOSBox that won't affect the host system?
- Can I build this into a simple .bat file?

After loading DOSBox, I can't type c:\>date, it returns Illegal command: date. So, that's a problem I would guess.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Patrick

Reply 1 of 10, by Dominus

Posted on 2019-12-08, 08:10

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DOSBox doesn't do that, but if you boot a DOS image inside DOSBox you can probably do that. You only lose the quick and easy access to your system folders.

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Reply 2 of 10, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2019-12-08, 09:48

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SVN has a DATE command. In 0.74 you can use the 4DOS shell to get a DATE command.

Reply 3 of 10, by latalante

Posted on 2019-12-08, 11:39

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You can use date from the GNU shtool package (requires cwsdpmi).
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/shtl208b.zip
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2misc/csdpmi7b.zip

1date.exe -s 1995-12-08
2date.exe +%D
3date.exe +%Y-%M-%d

Reply 4 of 10, by jmarsh

Posted on 2019-12-08, 12:30

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Why though, when as ripsaw says DOSBox already has an internal date command (and has had it for over 8 years).

Reply 5 of 10, by latalante

Posted on 2019-12-08, 12:47

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ripsaw8080 wrote:
SVN has a DATE command. In 0.74 you can use the 4DOS shell to get a DATE command.

I read that only the SVN version has the date built-in command.
If it also exists in older versions, then an external program is actually unnecessary.

Reply 6 of 10, by Graham21

Posted on 2019-12-08, 23:35

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Wow, I'm speechless, I had no idea how robust and engaged this group was - WOW!

Thank you all.

Quick question, which one do you want me to download - I'm using WinX to host DOSBox. No compiler or skill set to do so.

Which one?

Reply 7 of 10, by Graham21

Posted on 2019-12-08, 23:45

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...also, none of these appear to be executable files - they look like source code.

Please tell me which one to download, what do I do with it?

Thanks,
Patrick

Reply 8 of 10, by Qbix

Posted on 2019-12-09, 07:33

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The bottom one is the safest bet.
You need 7zip to extract it.

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Reply 9 of 10, by Graham21

Posted on 2019-12-09, 09:31

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A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever

That worked perfectly!

Again, thank you all so much!

Patrick

Reply 10 of 10, by Graham21

Posted on 2019-12-09, 09:58

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How do I set the Options for this version - I don't need it to be 3000 Cycles and such.

Thanks,
Patrick

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