DOSBox isn't Windows.

Automate exiting of Windows 3.1 post-EXE launch

Thank you for your reply.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough with what I'm trying to achieve. Adding a shell= statement doesn't work, or I don't know how to do it. I'll try again:

I have installed Windows 3.11 on DOSBox so I can run a couple of Windows games (in this case, Sid Meier's Civilization II).
I made a bin/cue with Alcohol 120% from an original CD I purchased in 1996, so I can mount it in DOSBox with the IMGMOUNT command.
I then mounted the bin/cue at the prompt with IMGMOUNT and ran Windows. I ran SETUP.EXE from the emulated CD. It installed a bunch of files, Video for Windows and WinG. The game runs without a problem in 640x480x256 colors with cd audio and sound effects. MapEdit works fine also.
Now I'd like to write a batch file and replace the original shortcut in Civ2 program group with one to the batch file.

Said batch should:
-Mount the bin/cue
-Return to Windows
-Run Civ2

I don't really care if it closes Windows or not, although it'd be a nice touch 😀
I'm well aware DOSBox isn't Windows, I don't know how to solve my problem but I do know the distinction between DOS and Windows... I hope?

*edit*
I figured out I can mount a cue and have a batch call win.com with a path, in this case win.com c:\civ2\civ2.exe. Program Manager starts out minimized and Civ 2 is maximized! success!

Now I'd like to do the same thing inside Windows. Double-clicking on the Civ2 shortcut and have a batch mount the cue and run Civ2.

well the "win program.exe" way is in the very first post of the thread dosfreak posted 😀

You are right, it is. But that doesn't work when I try to mount a bin/cue 🙁

I'm looking for a way to mount a cue and run a Windows program. So far I can either run a program (win c:\whatever\game.exe) or mount an iso with a batch and get the this program requires Windows error message.

Surely there must be a way to mount an image and run a Windows program from within Windows through a batch file?

I'm not so sure about the Ms Dos promot in Windows 3.x to be sure whether that will run anything that is a windows program or whether the dosbox mount works in that. Did you try?

But, as I find myself it would be nice to have workable shortcuts for playing all games in one Dosbox session, it isn't always practical. So I just have shortcuts in my host for each game that needs special attention. So if you want to actually play Civ2 have a shortcut ready to start dosbox with that instead of having a shortcut in Windows 3.x in Dosbox...

Thank you for the tips 😀

Mounting the image in a DOS prompt in Windows works a treat, but it refuses to run any Windows programs from there (This program must be run under Microsoft Windows.).