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First post, by Marztabator

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Is there any way of finding out the MS-DOS name of a folder in XP? It was easy in 9x because you could find it in the properties but this method doesn't work under XP, dammit.

This is so I can navigate to the right folder in DOSBox (which only supports MS-DOS-named folders it seems) in a directory which has lots of long-filenamed folders. 😀

Reply 1 of 3, by jurgen

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No idea, but if you make sure that these directories - where you put your dos applications/games for dosbox - have names that are no longer than 8 chars ( evt. 8.3), you should have no problems locating them in dosbox.

J.

Reply 2 of 3, by MiniMax

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