What are the "mount" lines you are using?

I've tried doing this in a couple of ways and used:

when mounting the real CD

mount c c:\dosbox\c
mount d d:\ -t cdrom

When using the aforementioned dd'd image

mount c c:\dosbox\c
imgmount d c:\dosbox\d\fragile.iso -t iso

Really quite strange. the config.ini is all correct (stating SourcePath=D: DestinationPath=C:\FRAGILE), the CD is mounted to d: and the _ma\_ma file exists within D:\.

After inspecting the INSTALL.INI that comes on the Fragile Allegiance CD, I notice that for the installer is supposed to for all installs:

copy %SourcePath%\_ma\*. _ma

and then on a Maximum install it is supposed to:

copy %SourcePath%\_ma\*.vid _ma

I think this could be a potential bug in Dosbox, or at the very least, a badly written script that Dosbox can't handle correctly. The _ma folder on the CD ONLY contains *.vid files with one exception, being the _MA file (no extension). I'm guessing that the _MA file should be copied over when copying _ma\*. _ma but it should ignore the .vid files.

in fact, if I do a dir d:\_MA\*. it only outputs the _MA file. However, if I do a copy d:\_MA\*. C:\FRAGILE\_MA I get D:\_MA\*.\*.* not found, which would imply a bug in the copy command. What are your thoughts?

EDIT: Looks like it is a bug with newer versions of Dosbox. Tried it with Dosbox 0.65 and it works fine and copies files correctly. 0.74 misses it.

EDIT 2: After a bit of messing with the source, getting rid of:

if (attr & DOS_ATTR_DIRECTORY && !strstr(source_p,"*.*"))
strcat(source_x,"\\*.*");

from around Line 598 in src/shell/shell_cmds.cpp appears to fix the problem (tested in arch linux, though as I haven't got a decent C++ development set up on my Windows PC). Editing it to

if (attr & DOS_ATTR_DIRECTORY && !strstr(source_p,"*.*") && !strstr(source_p,"*."))

keeps the functionality that these lines of code provide and also fix this issue too.

Any thoughts?

EDIT 3: Just something of note, a few files get missed because of this, not just the one from _MA. I haven't got a definitive list, but other files that get missed include those from _ZOOM, _INTRO, and more. The above fix does correct this.

EDIT 4: Last edit, I promise. That line of code appears at line 606 of the SVN trunk

I recall something on the beta forum about this as well. Got to check. Thanks for investigating

The issue with the FA CD install was previously reported. The *. finds the dot dirs in a sub directory, which have the directory attribute, so *.* is added for a dir copy. Any term that finds the dot dirs will have the same problem, like ? or * for example.

The solution proposed was to use

&& !strpbrk(source_p,"*?")

instead of

&& !strstr(source_p,"*.*")

because *.* should not be added for a dir copy if wildcards are already present.

FYI, I have tested Ripsaw's edit on the SVN code and it works fine. A lot tidier than my edit too 😀

Missed files are d:\_ma\_ma, d:\_scitek\_scitek and d:\_zoom\_zoom.
Manual copying is a temporal solution. We all are waiting version 0.75. 😀
Tnx for this info.

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The solution proposed was to use

&& !strpbrk(source_p,"*?")

instead of

&& !strstr(source_p,"*.*")

Maybe that could/should be limited to "occurrence of * after \" but i don't mind the strpbrk with *? either.

I think a wildcard in the path before the last \ should not be tolerated in any case (DOS would say path not found), but no point making things more strange by maybe adding *.* to it. 😉

True.

the strpbrk has been commited.

Hi
I had the same problem, every things where ok but when I tried to enter the construction menu it crashed to 'DOS' and told me that it can't find _MA\_MA. The file is missing.
I tried to copy _MA file from CD to that direction, but the problem persists, but when I copy and replace all the files in _Ma folder form CD into _Ma folder in the installation path, the problem fixed!!!! 😕 😀 😀 😀 😀
Now the game runs with dosbox 0.74 with no problem.
I don't know my CD is original or rip, I just download this CD game from a torrent link for free 🤣

SJD wrote:

I don't know my CD is original or rip, I just download this CD game from a torrent link for free 🤣

Then it is obviously not an original.