How to open a file with a specific editor when clicking on the file ? \ VOGONS

How to open a file with a specific editor when clicking on the file ?

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First post, by elior77

Posted on 2011-08-03, 05:49

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Hey !

I have an old special text editor, I would like to be able to open any file with this editor in dosbox...

I noticed that when I double click a file(lets call it prn) and associat it with dosbox, dosbox will mount the file path and try to run the file.

This is great but I need to open this file with this old special editor (that will run in win7 fullscreen only with dosbox

what dosbox does when double click on a prn file:
mount prn file path
try to run the prn file

what I would like to happen double click on a prn file:
mount prn file path
run a.exe filename.prn

a.exe = the editor

Thanks !

Last edited by elior77 on 2011-08-03, 07:09. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 7, by wd

Posted on 2011-08-03, 06:43

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Don't know why you're talking about dropbox, and why it's in the DEV forum. But you could start reading the DOSBOX readme of course.

Reply 2 of 7, by elior77

Posted on 2011-08-03, 07:08

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DOSBOX !! not dropbox 😀 sorry

After I tried google I found this place...

I read the readme - could not get it done.

can I get some help here ?

Thank you

Reply 3 of 7, by wd

Posted on 2011-08-03, 07:43

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Don't know if it's possible at the moment (it's not how dosbox should be used).

Did you have a look at some of the dosbox frontends? They won't allow you to
double-click an arbitrary file type and run something in dosbox then, but if the
files are somehow associated (like 10 different files only) you may be better off
with a frontend than with what you currently have in mind.

Reply 4 of 7, by aqrit

Posted on 2011-08-03, 17:10

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associate the files type with a batch script that launches dosbox

lets say you want to use the dos version of pkunzip to unpack all your zip files (for some reason)

1@echo off
2start D:\programs\dosbox\dosbox.exe -c "mount x: d:\dosapps\pkzip " -c "mount y: %~dsp1 " -c x: -c "pkunzip.exe y:\%~snx1 "

I don't know how well long file names are handled...

Reply 5 of 7, by elior77

Posted on 2011-08-04, 05:26

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Thank you.

I dont understand...

"start D:\programs\dosbox\dosbox.exe"
will start dropbox

-c "mount x: d:\dosapps\pkzip "
will mount pkzip path as x:

-c "mount y: %~dsp1 "
will mount %~dsp1(??) as y:
what is %~dsp1??

-c x:
will change dir to x:

-c "pkunzip.exe y:\%~snx1 "
will run pkunzip for y:\%~snx1??
what is y:\%~snx1??

i need *.prn files to be opened under dosbox with a.exe...

thank you

Reply 6 of 7, by collector

Posted on 2011-08-04, 06:37

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DOSBox has no registry to store file associations the way Windows does, even if you associated *.prn files with DOSBox, it would not know what to do with it.

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Reply 7 of 7, by elior77

Posted on 2011-08-04, 06:47

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aqrit wrote:
associate the files type with a batch script that launches dosbox […]
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associate the files type with a batch script that launches dosbox

lets say you want to use the dos version of pkunzip to unpack all your zip files (for some reason)
1@echo off
2start D:\programs\dosbox\dosbox.exe -c "mount x: d:\dosapps\pkzip " -c "mount y: %~dsp1 " -c x: -c "pkunzip.exe y:\%~snx1 "
I don't know how well long file names are handled...

IT WORKS !!! thank you very much !! 😀

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