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, Wengier̢۪s instructions said nothing about adding a line to a
>a
>file. You use the top-line menu Main, then Mapper Editor, and then
>follow Wengier̢۪s instructions exactly as written. Click Save when done.
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