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First post, by turbochris

Posted on 2012-01-26, 17:03

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I have a program that runs great in DosBox. Sometimes I have to add some files to a directory in that program but I have to do it through Win XP as XP gives me USB and network access. is there a way to make a folder, that when something is placed inside via XP, DoxBox will see it without having to restart the program? The files i need to trnasfer are small, usually on a floppy, I tried to mount a folder as a floppy drive but it didn't work.

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Reply 1 of 3, by leileilol

Posted on 2012-01-26, 17:05

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Pressing CTRL-F4 will refresh the directory/file list

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Reply 2 of 3, by VileR

Posted on 2012-01-26, 22:44

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or, if you want to do it in a batch file, the command is "rescan".

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Reply 3 of 3, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2012-01-27, 01:52

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I tried to mount a folder as a floppy drive but it didn't work.

Perhaps you didn't mount correctly, because it should work.

Examples:
mount a a:\ -t floppy (to mount a real floppy drive as a floppy)
mount a c:\folder -t floppy (to mount a hard drive folder as a floppy)

A floppy mount has the advantage that it doesn't need to be rescanned for DOSBox to notice when new files are externally placed there.

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