How would the filename look like in XP?

DOS only supports 8.3 character filenames so that's all you'll get in DOSBox.

If your saying that the parameters only accept a certain length then that is something different but filenames can only be 8.3 characters. (It's not a bug it's a feature).

hmm wonder what it uses to read the parameters. the commandline arguments parts is larger then 100 characters

18614380: FILES:file open command 2 file ADDSOUS2.DAT.sco

hmm seems we have a bug. when there is more then one . present
or some other thing that causes the .sco to be added to the filename

Hi,

format 8.3 is respected in "addsous2.dat". But, dosbox transmits only 8 characters INCLUDING extension.
Try

1probleme fract1.dat toto

and you will have result :
code fract1.d unknown (trunc at 8 characters) and the second parameter "toto" seems not transmitted.

The line "probleme.exe addsous2.dat toto" works fine in XP command line and not in dosbox.

Any idea to avoid this problem ?
Thank's

xp!=dos

would have to debug to see what goes wrong in dosbox.
as work around.
rename addsous2.dat to adsous2.sco
and start application
probleme addsous2 toto

Hi,

this program is a pure dos program, not xp ! It works fine with dos.

Qbix, how do you get

118614380: FILES:file open command 2 file ADDSOUS2.DAT.sco 

?. It would help me to see what is transmitted to the program.exe and perhaps bypass this problem.
Thank's a lot for your answers.

I get "unable to open file"

debug version of dosbox. should be a topic in development

this program is a pure dos program, not xp

You're running it under XP. Means you're NOT comparing behaviour of
dosbox against dos, but against xp's style of interpreting what it thinks
dos would do, which is by times very different from dos.

try making the .dat files read only.
It seems to work better if .dat.sco results in an illegal file or file not found error. Have to check it against real dos

try this patch

1Index: src/dos/dos_files.cpp
2===================================================================
3RCS file: /cvsroot/dosbox/dosbox/src/dos/dos_files.cpp,v
4retrieving revision 1.102
5diff -u -r1.102 dos_files.cpp
6--- src/dos/dos_files.cpp       5 Oct 2008 14:44:52 -0000       1.102
7+++ src/dos/dos_files.cpp       24 Nov 2008 19:57:02 -0000
8@@ -158,6 +158,11 @@
9                        if (lastdir!=0) strcat(fullname,"\\");
10                        char * ext=strchr(tempdir,'.');
11                        if (ext) {
12+                               if(strchr(ext+1,'.')) { //another dot in the extension =>file not found. check for 2 dots in dirs
13+                                       DOS_SetError(DOSERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND);
14+                                       return false;
15+                               }
16+
17                                ext[4] = 0;
18                                if((strlen(tempdir) - strlen(ext)) > 8) memmove(tempdir + 8, ext, 5);
19                        } else tempdir[8]=0;

Thank's for your job.
My problem : I don't know how to try this patch. I have to compile a dosbox development version ?

18614380: FILES:file open command 2 file ADDSOUS2.DAT.sco

hmm seems we have a bug. when there is more then one . present
or some other thing that causes the .sco to be added to the filename

Hi,
I think the program "probleme.exe" add extension .sco to the second argument and launch a dos command with this extension.
"probleme.exe addsous2.dat toto" become "probleme.exe addsous2.dat toto.sco".

So, there is a problem with argument line with two "."
Your code modification should give with debugger :

1file open command 2 file ADDSOUS2.DAT toto.sco

Does it work ?

I downloaded source, I saw the line to add. I will try to compile it.
Thank's again.

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Thank's, but I can't test this patch because I get error when I run it :

Config : loading primary settings from config file dosbox.conf
Exit to error : "vga" is not a valid value for variable : machine

I put cdeval.exe file in the same directory of my dosbox.exe.
This dosbox.conf works fine with dosbox.exe
I even rename cdeval to dosbox : same error.

I don't understand....

The format of the configuration file is subject to change. Remove dosbox.conf and try again.

So DOES THIS HAPPEN IN DOS as well? I'll surely close this thread
as xp-commandshell comparisons are just crap.

the application surely looks like it was used in real dos.
The application strcats .sco to each of the arguments and expects a file not found on the first one (as that file has 2 extension and hence can't be found). Crappy programming, but it worked on msdos 5.0