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How to use command on multiple drives

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First post, by salea656

Posted on 2016-04-17, 10:32

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I want to use the old ms-dos editor with dosbox
I've added the edit.exe to c:\ drive and successfully use the command 'edit' though, when I change to a different drive , i.e. drive p:\, I can't use the 'edit' command.

How can I get edit.exe to work in all mounted drives without copying the edit.exe file to all drives?

Reply 1 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2016-04-17, 10:34

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use

1set path=c:\;z:\

like you would normally in DOS.

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Reply 2 of 7, by salea656

Posted on 2016-04-17, 10:50

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I've tried using it
But sadly I don't get how it works

I'm trying to get the edit command that's on c:\edit.exe to work while i'm on any other drive as well, i.e. drive p:/
without copying edit.exe to drive p:\

Reply 3 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2016-04-17, 11:06

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that is what path does
You have to keep C:\ mounted

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Reply 4 of 7, by salea656

Posted on 2016-04-17, 11:12

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After googling it a bit
I understand how it works
but when I use set path=c:\;z:\ I still can't get the edit command to work, only in drive c:\ it works

Reply 5 of 7, by salea656

Posted on 2016-04-17, 11:19

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Ok found out what my problem was
I had the edit.exe in root C:\
after moving it to a separate folder C:\msedit\edit.exe and having that folder in PATH, it started to work

Thank you for the command

Reply 6 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2016-04-17, 11:34

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That is odd, but glad you found a solution.

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Reply 7 of 7, by mrau

Posted on 2016-04-17, 20:12

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salea656 wrote:
path=c:;z:

maybe?

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