Shortcuts that You Run in DOSBox
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- This will allow you to use a shortcut to your program using a batch file that you run in DOSBox it's self.
- This way you can keep you mount settings
- Create in the root directory of the folder you use primarily for DOSBox a text file and rename it [program].bat
- The shortcuts will need to be in the same (mounted) drive as the program(s) you want to run
- Open it in notepad and type
- @echo off
- cd [program dir]
- [program]
- cd \ REM once the program is closed this will take you back to the root directory
- To run it (provided your autoexec has something like "mount C C:\folder", C:\ and [program].bat is in C:\folder) just type [program].
- So for theme hospital that would be 'hospital.bat' and
- @echo off
- cd hospital
- hospital
- cd \
- and to run it all you need to do is type 'hospital'.
- You can write a program to do this quickly but this will assume that the program name and folder are the same
- Unfortunately this can't be run from dosbox
- Create a batch file in the directory you want the shortcuts to be in lets call it short.bat and write this to it
- @echo off
- set /P program="Enter the name of the program: "
- echo @echo off > %program%.bat
- echo cd %program% >> %program%.bat
- echo %program% >> %program%.bat
- echo cd \ >> %program%.bat