Many thanks, I will try that in a few minutes.
One other Mac thing anyone, I'm hooked up to a WD
MyCloud network drive. I want to assign the path
"public" to drive W: in DOSbox and the path
"billt" to drive S. This is easy enough in
Windows10/vDos because the Windows makes it easy
to give the network folders those drive aliases.
But how do I do that in Mac? I can't even
remember how to find the path of my network
drive, in a form such that I could enter into DOSbox's config.
At 12/26/2021 07:08 PM, you wrote:
>Hi Bill,
>
>I suspect you had selected /Users/billt as
>DOSBox-X's working directory which was then
>saved to the *global* config file earlier. As a
>result, its working directory automatically
>becomes /Users/billt. You can check whether a
>global config file is being used (and its full
>path) by typing the command "CONFIG -L" in
>DOSBox-X's DOS command shell. You can then take
>a look at the "working directory option" and
>"working directory default" settings in the
>global config file, which essentially achieves
>the function of the -defaultdir option. Try
>modify the "working directory option" and
>"working directory default" settings in the
>global config file and see how it works. Hope this helps.
>
>Wengier
>
>
>On Sunday, December 26, 2021, 01:02:03 p.m. EST,
>Bill Troop <
billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>Thanks Paul I will consider that. Not that I have
>any experience setting paths in MacOS !!! Or is
>it paths in the DOSBOX system I should be setting? Or both?
>
>At 12/26/2021 12:17 PM, you wrote:
> >Dear Bill
> >
> >I don't use DOSBOX but the symptoms you are
> >reporting sound similar to those in DOS, VDOS
> >etc when you have not specified the location of XYWrite in the Path setting.
> >
> >Happy Xmas
> >
> >Paul
> >
> >On 25/12/2021 23:00, Bill Troop wrote:
> >I've tried this many times and it simply never takes. And there does
> >seem to be a misfunction. For example, I invoke dosbox from a folder
> >called xyz. But when I try to save the map file, I get the console
> >message, cannot open file in xyz/xyz. (It repeats the name of the
> >folder.) So I created that dummy folder, and sure enough, the map file
> >got saved there. However, it still doesn't register. From dosbox I can
> >explicitly say, load this map file, and still the change will not occur.
> >After restarting dosbox, the mapper editor always shows the original
> >setting.
> >
> >I also couldn't get any font setting to work. I tried Carl's settings,
> >but they just resulted in error messages, even when I eliminated all the
> >white space.
> >
> >I also find that I cannot get the screen length commands to register,
> >and I can't get any ttf font to load. Should the font be included in the
> >dosbox folder? I have to invoke these commands from the dosbox menu,
> >laboriously, each time.
> >
> >I am finding everything much speedier, but I still am annoyed by a
> >delay-before-repeat upon keypress and would love to be able to change that.
> >
> >
> >At 12/24/2021 02:18 PM, you wrote:
> >To save Wengier some trouble when answering:
> >
> >Bill, Wengier’s instructuctions said nothing about adding a line to a
>
> >a
> >file. You use the top-line menu Main, then Mapper Editor, and then
>
> >follow Wengier’s instructions exactly ly
> as written. Click Save when done.
>
> >.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>