Re: DOSBox-X version 0.83.20 on M1

[Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wengier, COUNTLESS thanks. I didn't get the prompt. But I will
try some more tomorrow, and I also have Ed's version to download and try.
Also many thanks for the lesson in syntax. 

At 12/27/2021 11:19 PM, you wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> The displayed path for the user configuration directory simply shows
> where the user configuration directory is supposed to be located. If it
> does not exist, then it will be ignored. But I you can try creating such
> a directory if it did not exist. As for the working directory, if you set
> “working directory option = prompt” then DOSBox-X should prompt for
> working directory each time it runs, ignoring the “working directory
> default = /Users/billt/dellxps17” option. But you did not mention
> whether you actually see such a prompt when you run DOSBox-X. If you do,
> the mapper files etc will be loaded from the selected directory.
>
> Wengier
>
>
> > On Dec 27, 2021, at 8:20 AM,
> > Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  Re my thought that this output may reveal a bug, I want to be clear
> > that CONFIG -L is reporting a directory that does not exist on my
> > system. 
> >
> > At 12/27/2021 06:10 AM, you wrote:
> > > Hi Bill,
> > >
> > > The user configuration directory and the working directory are two
> > > completely separate things; the two directories as shown by CONFIG -L do
> > > not indicate a bug, but rather something wrong with the setting. There is
> > > no need to change the user configuration directory, which looks fine, but
> > > the working directory appears to be certainly wrong for your use case. I
> > > think you can indeed remove the existing working directory default line
> > > and replace it with a directory that contains the mapper file and font
> > > files etc, or you can put these files in /Users/billt/. I believe it
> > > should work when you make such changes.
> > >
> > > Wengier
> > > On Sunday, December 26, 2021, 06:53:24 p.m. EST, Bill Troop
> > > <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > >
> > >
> > > One note about config -L
> > >
> > > It reports that the user configuration directory is
> > > /Users/billt/Library/Preferences/
> > >
> > > but,
> > >
> > >   /Users/billt/
> > >
> > > does not contain an entry for LIbrary or Preferences.
> > >
> > > Rather, the existing /libary/preferences on this vanilla system are 
> > > straight off the "macintosh HD" or root.
> > >
> > > If that isn't a bug, then what is it?
> > >
> > > Meanwhile: XyWrite looks great once I execute the menu commands 
> > > screen mode 43x80, and Output, TrueType font.
> > >
> > > But nothing I put in config makes these things happen. And MAPPER 
> > > reports that the change I made has taken, BUT, the program still uses
> > > the Mac's control key.
> > >
> > > Just in case it's important, the chip is M1 Max; the OS is
> > > 12.01.
> > >
> > > And I don't think I have the right syntax for the working directory 
> > > default line in dosbox-x.conf. The documentation seems to me to 
> > > indicate that it should be
> > > working directory default /Users/billt/dellxps17
> > > but this doesn't work, and I cannot find any suggestion how else to write
> > > it.