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First post, by michael1955

Posted on 2011-09-21, 13:54

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First of all, I am new to DOSBox, so please be patient with me, if I am asking a dull question !

I wish to set a system wide environment variable under Windows 7, and pass its context to a variable in the DOSBox.
Is there a way to "get" environment variables from the host operating system?

((I hope now ma question makes it into the right forum))

Reply 1 of 5, by Qbix

Posted on 2011-09-21, 14:03

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save them in a text/bat file and read/run that inside dosbox.

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Reply 2 of 5, by michael1955

Posted on 2011-09-21, 14:10

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Sorry, but this russion method is not quite what I wanted to hear.

Calling a batch file, that reads the env variables - stores them in a file with the dosbox-command as last record and then executing that file - is not quite what I want to do

Reply 3 of 5, by Qbix

Posted on 2011-09-21, 14:14

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dunno.

1echo set var=value > test.bat
2dosbox ./test.bat

isn't that complicated. Otherwise you are out of luck. The whole of idea of dosbox is seperate your OS from the game running inside it. (as DOS games don't like Windows 7)

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Reply 4 of 5, by michael1955

Posted on 2011-09-21, 14:17

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OK - Thanks

I must look for some other possibility then.
All my Shortcuts in Windows 7 have e.g.: the drive letter as a global Environment letter, since most drives are NAS or USB

again Thank you for the info

Reply 5 of 5, by collector

Posted on 2011-09-21, 17:42

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If your problem is with shortcuts for portable or non-fixed drives, you use batch files instead of shortcuts so you can use relative paths instead of absolute paths.

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