Where do you put the autoexec lines for a dosbox?

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:13:58 +0700, Jaelani
wrote:

mm wrote:
In Win98, where do you put the config.sys and autoexec lines for a
dosbox?

I need to use a shell and/or set command before I go from win98 to a
dos box:

shell=C:\PROGRAMS\4DOS\4dos.com /p
and/or
set comspec=C:\PROGRAMS\4DOS\4dos.com

4DOS I just found out is available free now for DOS, Win98, and even
winXP. (I have paid for it already, but can't find the disks to
install it in this computer.)

The installation in XP went fine, including its putting an icon in the
QuckLaunch bar. Although it does have the problem that too many
operations are displayed in the GUI and requires alt-tab to get back
to the dosbox. There is no native dos in XP so they pretty much had
to get the box to work.

My XP is broken now and until I get it fixed, I'm back to win98SE. A
different version of 4DOS is available for that, and installation was
easy and it works fine in native DOS.

The last time I did this I knew how, but it's been 10 years or so and
I can't remember.

For Windows 9x, just add/edit the SHELL option in your CONFIG.SYS.

No, that doesn't do it. (Having to explain it to you caused me to
remember he solution. 3 paragrpahs down.) The 4dos install does that,
and it works in native DOS, but if I start a dos box from within
win98, it's straight microsoft dos as if 4dos were never installed.

This was true the first time too, 10 years ago.

(I used to have two icons, one that went to a MSDOS box and one that
went to a 4DOS box, but alas that harddrive started going click click
click, and I had no backup for files I wrote that weren't in the
normal data areas.)

Aha! Having to explain this to you in order to ask my question better
reminds me of the answer. In order to have my choice, I had two
shortcuts. So one way is to make a shortcut on the desktop for 4DOS
in which the command is

C:\PROGRAMS\4DOS\4DOS.COM /p or whatever fits your files.

Doing that makes it run autoexec.bat again, maybe because of the /p.
But regardless it works now, so thank you for the help, and I want to
remind all DOS users and win98 users how great 4DOS is.

One can then edit the properties of the shortcut and decide if he
wants full-screen dos or a box. It's possible to copy and paste from
a box.

My personal favorite is the List command, which will display the
internals of any file, in hex or text. List *.* will display every
file in a directory, only needing esc to go to the next file. And
it's incredibly quick because the file isn't mored to a work area in
RAM aiui, and there is no chance of making a change to it by accident
(which once happened to me with an editor, where the editor put one
character at the end for some reason.)

On another occaiosn, when I deleted about 200 files because my
directory structure was bad, and when I deleted a subdirectory, two
levels down it found the root directory and was deleting files in the
root directory. They were all redeemable with Norton Undelete, but I
didn't always know what the first letter was. List enable me to look
inside easily, hunt for the name minus the first letter, and then
learn what the first letter was. About 2/3 of the files had their
names inside of them.

For Windows XP... well, you can't do that since Windows XP is a native
32-bit OS - unlike Windows 9x/Me. Use TCLite instead (freeware, from the
same creator of 4DOS, formerly named 4NT).

Good advice to other readers. I have TC Le it might be called now,
and it works fine, and for free like you say. I guess Because XP is
like NT, 4DOS won't work there.

www.jpsoft.com

They hide the free stuff a little bit among all the stuff they want to
sell. But that seems fair.