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DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project
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Set Clipper = FXXX in multiple mounted drives possible? #3082

Open Algester opened 2 years ago

Algester commented 2 years ago

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So my father still has a financial/inventory program that was made with Clipper now I'm trying to fool around some "hacky" ways in which he might be going to use the program I did notice when I setup the autoexec part of dosbox-X in which I have written down Set Clipper = F100 mount C //XXXXX/ C: Cd [folder name] Program.exe

And then attempt to do mount D //XXXXX/ D: Cd [folder name] Sameprogram.exe

The one mounted on D will have issues is there any way for me to make sure that the same program mounted on D will work like if it had been tweaked by the autoexec with set clipper = FXXX argument?

I was thinking of just making a batch file that would run the program but has set clipper = FXXX before hand but I'm not certain if this is how DOS handles it to begin with or is this where config.sys will actually work?

Wengier commented 2 years ago

Are drive C: and D: mounted to the same host path? If so, why not just run the program from the same drive, or even from the same drive of multiple running DOSBox-X instances?

Algester commented 2 years ago

No the program is the same but C and D drives are mounted on different host paths but my father can not in his insistence handle information overload so I don't think multiple Dosbox-x instances will be helpful here

But I'll throw him the multiple dosbox-x instances as an option if it comes down to it