First post, by neiro
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Hello. I meant to use dosbox to run some simulation software in windows 7, but appearently it can't work!
We recently upgraded about half of our computers (800-1000) and bought windows 7 licences for them. We're still stuck in xp because some problems just don't want to work in 64bit win 7 though. One of which is a dos program.
We used to run those programs on 386sx systems with 30mb harddrive and dos 6.2 - but in 2001 I replaced these systems with athlons and did some creative stuff to make it work with a network printer. This time I'm stuck though.
The problem:
I start dosbox 0.73
mount c: e:\test
cd dysim\villa1
dir
now dir will show a file called VILLA1Ï1.SEQ that in the 'real' file system is called VILLA1Ø1.SEQ
I cannot open the file, I cannot copy the file and I cannot access the file using the real name.
There are approximetly 70 of these files, and they're part of the software. Renaming the files only solves the access problem from the command prompt, but not the software's ability to run as it still can't access the file (it doesn't know I've changed its name ofcourse)
In 0.50 and 0.65 versions of dosbox (0.58 didn't allow me to input backslash so I couldn't mount the path) the Ø char shows up as a char resembling the unicode 256A character (using the Arial font anyway).
Curiously enough if I do a dir>dirlist.txt and open this file with notepad in windows it'll show the proper character.
I've tried diffent code pages in 0.73 using the keyb command (mode con codepage appearently isn't supported in dosbox). Also tried forcing keyboard language in 0.65 using keyboardlayout=dk159 under [dos] and added the ega cpx files from freedos as per guide on this forum. In fact I copied all freedos binary files just to be sure. But it doesn't seem to respect this entry as the keyboard layout still seems to be us with codepage 850 or 865 (ø shows up as a small c with a vertical line at top and bottom as I expect from cp 850.
However the file parsing system doesn't seem to adhere to this codepage - or any codepage actually - as changing 'keyb' keyboards in 0.73 to random codepages doesn't change anything in the directory layout.
Does anyone have a solution to my problem? short of booting a dos over pxe (which means I can't print as the old lan manager can't default to ntlmv2 for net use)
ps. Heard rumors that printing from dosbox to 64 bit windows hosts doesn't work in general?
Extra ps. The forum post system is annoying! it keeps centering the scrollbar in the middle at keyboard input, so I had to write this in notepad and copy paste!
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