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First post, by Arkoudos

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First of all i am new here so if i ask something wrong plz have patient 😀.
Itried dosbox 0.62 and i had no probs until now.
For a programm i needed to use this command

device=c:\drex_drv.sys

I tried to put it at the autoexec section but then i get this msg

device. illegal command

at the promth i had the same problem
But in the conf file i see that the command "device" i used 🙁

So what i make wrong ?

Thx in advance

Reply 1 of 7, by eL_PuSHeR

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There are no autoexec.bat nor config.sys files under DOSBox. You must make a bootable floppy containing that device driver and boot it from DOSBox. Search the forum and read the documentation. 😎

PS - There is an autoexec section inside DOSBox configuration file but I don't remember if you could put device= statements there. I think not, but you should check it out nonetheless.

Reply 3 of 7, by MiniMax

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Arkoudos wrote:

For a programm i needed to use this command

device=c:\drex_drv.sys

Eh - why do you need that?

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Reply 4 of 7, by Guest

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I need this file to put passwords to a database that only runs in dos
Without this the database dasnt work 🙁
Btw device is not supported and external boot is out of the question since the database will be on a flash and my notebook dont have a floppy.

Regards and thx for the answers 😀

Reply 7 of 7, by gulikoza

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I'm sure there was a program that loaded the devices for you so you could load them in a bat file. It was used for iso image mounting since it required a special cdrom driver to be loaded (which was .sys of course).