Problem to mount \ VOGONS

Problem to mount

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First post, by rainbowniagara

Posted on 2014-01-05, 10:05

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I installed dosbox because I have a program that works under dos and my previous laptop has crashed where I had windows 98. So I have to reinstall this programm but on a laptop with windows 7. So I used dosbox to do so.
However I can't mount the Z-drive to the virtually C-drive. Maybe this is because I have a laptop with a AZERTY keyboard and when I open dosbox it automatically switches to QWERTY which is difficult for me. I have finally found the symbol "\" , but this doesn't work. When I type the following MOUNT C C:\dosprogrs it doesn't do a thing. I also have to type everything except the \ and later add this symbol, because when I do this directly, it jumps to the next line and that's it. Can someone please help me? Is there a version for AZERTY (probably not), but how can I mount this directory?

Many thanks

Reply 1 of 3, by IIGS_User

Posted on 2014-01-05, 11:00

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To set the keyboard layout read this:
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/KEYB

When trying to mount a path, instead of type the backslash you could also type the "/" sign.

Klimawandel.

Reply 2 of 3, by rainbowniagara

Posted on 2014-01-05, 17:22

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Many thanks
I'm going to try this

Reply 3 of 3, by Jorpho

Posted on 2014-01-06, 16:16

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rainbowniagara wrote:
I also have to type everything except the \ and later add this symbol, because when I do this directly, it jumps to the next line and that's it.

It sounds like you're hitting Escape. That's not the same thing.

See also Right-Shift / Backslash Keyboard Problems (SOLVED!) , or the DOSBox readme:

KEYBOARD: I can't type \ or : in DOSBox. […]
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KEYBOARD: I can't type \ or : in DOSBox.

This can happen in various cases, like your host keyboard layout does not have a matching DOS layout representation (or it was not correctly detected), or the key mapping is wrong.
Some possible fixes:

1. Use / instead, or ALT-58 for : and ALT-92 for \.
2. Change the DOS keyboard layout (see Section 8: Keyboard Layout).
3. Add the commands you want to execute to the [autoexec] section of the DOSBox configuration file.
4. Open the DOSBox configuration file and change the usescancodes entry.
5. Switch the keyboard layout of your operating system.

Note that if the host layout can not be identified, or keyboardlayout is set to none in the DOSBox configuration file, the standard US layout is used. In this configuration try the keys around "enter" for the key \ (backslash), and for the key : (colon) use shift and the keys between "enter" and "L".

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