Text Editors + DOSBox >

I decided to implement a DOS editor wrapper using DOSBox.

edit() {

A Linux path to your dos stuff.
  dosdir="/home/user/_public/live/dos/dos/"

This is a path from the C: DOSBox mountpoint.
  editor="C:\dos\edit.com"

editor="C:\8088\utils\ted3.com"
editor="C:\8088\utils\works\works.exe"
create the file if it doesn't already exist?
create=1

  file=$1


This routine is good for editors which complain about a file not existing
first, like Microsoft Works 3.0
  if [ $create -eq 1 ]; then

If it doesn't exist
    if [ ! -f $file ]; then

Create it
      echo : >> $file
    fi
  fi


get the full path of $1
  file=`readlink -f $file`

now convert /path/to/file to the DOS-style \path\to\file
  file=`echo $file|sed 's/\//\\\/g'`
  echo "D:$file"


DOSBox doesn't like it if you mount the root.
If some future version complains, then as root do something like:
mount -o bind / /home/user/mounted-root
  dosbox \
  -c "mount d /" \
  -c "mount c $dosdir" \
  -c "c:" \
  -c "$editor D:$file" \
  -c "exit"
}