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DOSbox with two DOS sessions ?

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First post, by aphuk

Posted on 2005-10-21, 19:34

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I have just installed and used DosBox and it does exactly what I want. My query is related to when I exit .
There are 2 DOS boxes at

BOX1.... appears to be a config box telling me what has been loaded and it has no prompt.

BOX2 ...I start my program fom this box which has the prompt Z:\

When I exit my DOS app BOX2 closes. BOX1 is still there and when I cick close I get the message

'Windows cannot close this box. It may need more time to complete an operation'..... You have to hit END TASK to close it

Is this normal ?

Reply 1 of 8, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2005-10-21, 20:39

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Try running dosbox shortcut with the -noconsole parameter.

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Reply 2 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2005-10-22, 19:35

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BOX 1 contains the lines
CONFIG: Loading settings from config file dosbox.conf
+
MIDI: Opened device:win32

I changed the target line command from

"C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.exe" -conf -noconsole"C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.conf "

BOX1 still opens but does not contain the first line
CONFIG: Loading settings from config file dosbox.conf

I then tried
"C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.exe" -conf"C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.conf -noconsole"

This appears to do nothing ??

Reply 3 of 8, by Qbix

Posted on 2005-10-22, 20:25

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"C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.exe" -conf"C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.conf" -noconsole

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Reply 4 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2005-10-24, 07:23

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that's the one!
thanks to you both for the support

Reply 5 of 8, by lwc

Posted on 2005-10-24, 11:43

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It may be less annoying not to have this window around, but just know that without it DOSBox would leave some actual (log) files around in whatever folder you've started DOSBox from.

Reply 6 of 8, by HunterZ

Posted on 2005-10-24, 21:32

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Is there a way to get both the window and the log file(s)?

Reply 7 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2005-10-25, 13:11

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It's not over yet!!

Just noticed this today....

the weirdest thing

If I start DOSbox using -noconsole I don't get the 2 DOS sessions (2 DOS boxes). This is exactly what I want.

If I then close DOSbox and try and restart it nothing happens (or doesn't appear to).

When I then close down windows (XP Pro) my DOSbox appears (more than once dependent upon how many times I tried to start it. If I tried 4 times then there will be four sessions)

Anything I can do?

Reply 8 of 8, by HunterZ

Posted on 2005-10-25, 16:50

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- Don't hit the X to close DOSBox. Instead, use the 'exit' command at the virtual DOS prompt.
- After closing DOSBox, bring up the Task Manager in XP (ctrl+alt+delete) and make sure no dosbox.exe processes are still running (if there are, kill them).

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