4dos on dosbox

johnel...@googlemail.com

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Nov 2, 2008, 12:44:06 PM11/2/08

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4dos eg latest version 7.92 from Lucho works fine under dosbox 0.72,
which I run under ubuntu. The only problem is that dosbox does not
really emulate 'real' dos fully, so 4dos starts up with the date set
to us format & thinking that it's running under msdos v5. I'd like to
be able to change it to uk format.

Anyone tried 4dos under dosbox & found a way to do this eg by some
combination of country.sys, nlsfunc etc? A fix to to dosbox so it
sets country up properly has been requested, but I'm not sure when (if
ever) that will get implemented.

Klaus Meinhard

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Nov 2, 2008, 1:19:49 PM11/2/08

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johnel...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Anyone tried 4dos under dosbox & found a way to do this eg by some
> combination of country.sys, nlsfunc etc? A fix to to dosbox so it
> sets country up properly has been requested, but I'm not sure when (if
> ever) that will get implemented.

Have you looked under OPTION at the OPTIONS1 page?

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tikbalang

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Nov 2, 2008, 6:18:42 PM11/2/08

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On Nov 3, 2:19 am, "Klaus Meinhard" <K_Meinh...@t-online.de> wrote:
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> Have you looked under OPTION at the OPTIONS1 page?
>

how is it possible to run 4dos as the primary shell in dosbox?

Klaus Meinhard

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Nov 3, 2008, 2:06:36 AM11/3/08

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Are you asking me? How and why should I know?

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Mit freundlichem Gruß,

Klaus Meinhard

tikbalang

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Nov 3, 2008, 12:35:48 PM11/3/08

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On Nov 3, 3:06 pm, "Klaus Meinhard" <K_Meinh...@t-online.de> wrote:
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> > how is it possible to run 4dos as the primary shell in dosbox?
>
> Are you asking me? How and why should I know?
>

sorry, i meant to ask the original poster. the only way i was able to
launch 4dos as primary shell was if i booted my own dos bootdisk (or
bootable hd image). however, dosbox features and internal commands
become inaccessible (mounted hd/folder).

btw, this could be a possible answer to johnlee's question. boot your
own dos in dosbox to get dos features, at the expense losing dosbox
commands.

CBFalconer

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Nov 3, 2008, 8:04:52 PM11/3/08

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tikbalang wrote:
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> how is it possible to run 4dos as the primary shell in dosbox?

Look at the installation instructions, and run it during bootup
with the /p switch. Have it open your permanent CLI window. The
following is a typical command for W98 in config.sys:

SHELL=C:\4DOS\602\4DOS.COM C:\4DOS\602\ /P

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Try the download section.

tikbalang

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Nov 4, 2008, 4:35:59 AM11/4/08

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On Nov 4, 9:04 am, CBFalconer <cbfalco...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> SHELL=C:\4DOS\602\4DOS.COM C:\4DOS\602\ /P
>

but dosbox ignores config.sys and autoexec.bat. for the above
statement to take effect, one has to boot a bootdisk from dosbox.

Sjouke Burry

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Nov 4, 2008, 4:59:39 PM11/4/08

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dosbox does acknowledge config.nt and autoexec.nt

johnel...@googlemail.com

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Nov 5, 2008, 5:29:13 AM11/5/08

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Not sure why you think it's a problem - I just downloaded into my
ubuntu the latest dosbox 0.72, then made the changes to dosbox.conf as
per the instructions to create a c: drive - from dosbox- adding my
normal command for starting 4dos eg c:\4dos\4dos.com/e:16384
start_bat_file to dosbox.conf, and away it goes. There is no need to
add any shell commands. So maybe I've missed something but it is very
simple & well documented.

HTH John

Luchezar Georgiev

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Nov 5, 2008, 6:41:34 AM11/5/08

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Sjouke Burry пишет:

> dosbox does acknowledge config.nt and autoexec.nt

Maybe these pages can help:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491039.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321521

Regards,
Lucho