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Need to fetch the config dir string

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First post, by SlimG

Posted on 2009-09-04, 04:09

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My Goal:

Launch a game from any platform with default dosbox
settings, and without having to edit files when moving
the game between platforms and paths.
Launch a game using only one path as argument to dosbox

Example game:
/dir/cg/dosbox.conf
/dir/cg/coolgame.exe

```
1dosbox -conf /dir/cg/dosbox.conf /dir/cg/coolgame.exe
```
The problem: This would launch the game, but requires two path arguments, and thus is of no use.
Adding the following to /dir/cg/dosbox.conf:
[autoexec] MOUNT C . C: coolgame.exe […]
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[autoexec]
MOUNT C .
C:
coolgame.exe
before running
```
1dosbox -conf /dir/cg/dosbox.conf
```
The problem: This would only work if I run dosbox from within /dir/cg/

What I would wish for, is a variable named %CONFDIR% that would return the real directory of the current config file, so this would be the working sollution:

Adding the following to /dir/cg/dosbox.conf:

[autoexec] MOUNT C %CONFDIR% C: coolgame.exe […]
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[autoexec]
MOUNT C %CONFDIR%
C:
coolgame.exe
before running […]
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before running
1dosbox -conf /dir/cg/dosbox.conf
Another way of solving this would be to change the default behaviour of dosbox to allways check for dosbox.conf before executing.

Reply 1 of 2, by DosFreak

Posted on 2009-09-04, 09:54

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DOSBox does check for dosbox.conf when exection. First from local then from HOME\Profile.

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Reply 2 of 2, by MiniMax

Posted on 2009-09-04, 21:43

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In other words, you want a command like this:

MyMagicDosbox /dir/cg/

that will execute the command

dosbox -conf /dir/cg/dosbox.conf /dir/cg/coolgame.exe

Now.... How hard can it be to write a program/script called MyMagicDosbox that will change the working directory to /dir/cg and execute the above mentioned command?

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