Re: Anyone want to get this D
  By: MRO to Nightfox on Sun Jul 16 2023 06:43 am

 >   Re: Anyone want to get this D
 >   By: Nightfox to MRO on Sat Jul 15 2023 01:52 pm
 >
 >  >  MR> so why do you have a different entire drive for these
 >  >  MR> paths?
 >  >  MR> D: is /sbbs/node1
 >  >  MR> E: is /sbbs/xtrn
 >  >  MR> F: is /sbbs/ctrl
 >  >  MR> G: is /sbbs/data
 >  >  MR> H: is /sbbs/exec
 >
 >  > From my understanding, that's normally how dosemu works..  In order to
 >  > access a directory on the host OS from dosemu, it has to be mapped to a
 >  > drive letter.
 >
 > you cant access sub dirs?  that's really stupid if that's true.
 > i played around with dosemu many years ago but can't remember anything.

You can access sub directories in DOSemu, but IIRC, only if they're DOS-compatible short filenames.

As for why every single sbbs subdir is a different drive letter, you'd have to ask the original author of the Synchronet DOSemu patch, runderwo:
http://www.icequake.net/bbs/syncmods/

 > i'd rather use dosbox emulation.

DOSbox adds a lot of limitations on DOS door support.
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