A couple of Dosbox questions

[ffutures]

I want to run a Dos program on my netbook using Dosbox - it works OK, but getting it to start is a pain because I have to set the path etc. and the netbook's ~ key doesn't work under Dosbox, it comes out as an @ instead. Can't find ~ at all under DOS. I can get round it by using CD ../ to get to the top of the file system, then changing directories down, but it's a bit of a pain. Any easy alternative?

What I would ideally like to do is set up a link that starts Dosbox and loads the program automatically - is there any simple way to do that?

Comments

[thermalsatsuma.livejournal.com]

There's a list of front ends here http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBoxFrontends - worth trying a few until you find one that suits you.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Looks like none of them are in the Mint software repository - in view of my relatively poor linux skills I'm a bit reluctant to try installing any of them in case I can't fix any mistakes.

Maybe bat files are the simpler answer.