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how to directly start a DOS app without goign through DOSEmu window

DOSEMU / Linux Stas Sergeev 1 participant 2 messages Mar 27, 2005 1 message not in the archive

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Hello.

Quoted 6 lines · Daniel Moyne

With Linux I have a DOS app that I want to directly start without doing :
D:
cd generelt
demgene.exe
in the DOS window launched by xdosemu.
"generelt" directory is in my $HOME directory

xdosemu $HOME/generelt/demgene.exe

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Hello.

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xdosemu $HOME/generelt/demgene.exe

Thanks this works fine but the ultimate idea is to move the DOS app "demgene.exe" in "/usr/local/DOS/Generel" for all users to access and keep $HOME/generelt just to access data ; in this case :

Move the main executable to /usr/local/DOS/Generel but still have the symlinks to it from all the home dirs?

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$ xdosemu /usr/local/DOS/Generel/demgene.exe

This opens the app but has no "$HOME/generelt" definition for accessing data. What else to do ?

If you can tell your demgene.exe to search
for its data on another logical DOS drive, then
you can make that another drive to be the "$HOME/generelt" on a per-user basis. Search
for the "Re: commandline switch for changing $_hdimage settings?" topic on that list to see how.
If this is not possible and you don't like the
idea with symlinks too, then I think you are
out of luck.