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PATH entry in AUTOEXEC.BAT

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PATH entry in AUTOEXEC.BAT

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The DOSBox initial PATH line is ‚PATH=Z:/‘

In the section, Dapplegrey gives you a way to edit the PATH line just by adding your custom lines at the end of the presented line ‚PATH=%PATH%;‘ as shown in this example:

PATH=%PATH%; C:/WINDOWS;C:/DOS

This will add your path entry to the current path line, so the DOSBox original ‚PATH=Z:‘ value will not be overwritten.
This way, the internal DOSBox commands are still available to the user w/o having to enter a z: in front of them.

Hint: After installing a game, check its ‚C:‘ folder to see if an altered AUTOEXEC.BAT file has been saved and if so, copy its content into the AUTOEXEC section of the game profile.

Here are some other hints to add your own path entries:

  • Different pathes have to be separated by the character ; (semicolon).
  • You don‘t have to force enter the char \ in its line, the char / does the same work.
  • DOS pathes usually starts with its drive letter, a colon and the slash, i.e ‚C:/‘