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Dos SHELL into another DosBox instance

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First post, by citapinc

Posted on 2011-01-14, 20:17

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I'm trying to get an old DOS program to work within DosBOX but found an interesting problem.

From within the DOS application we can press ALT-F1 and it will launch another DOS application using a shell command. When that other application launches, it looks like it's launching CMD instead of DosBOX and as such none of the drive letters are matching.

Is there a command or a setting that will force any DOS applications on the entire computer to execute within DosBOX instead of CMD?

Reply 1 of 3, by wd

Posted on 2011-01-14, 21:09

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When that other application launches, it looks like it's launching CMD instead of DosBOX and as such none of the drive letters are matching.

That's not possible. If you run the app in dosbox it can not launch cmd.exe

Reply 2 of 3, by citapinc

Posted on 2011-01-15, 19:05

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That's odd. Then it tried to shell out it said the drive that I mounted was not available. I will try it again.

Reply 3 of 3, by Dominus

Posted on 2011-01-15, 19:14

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If you want to show what happens, start the video capturing in dosbox and upload the video to youtube or so.

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