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FreeDOS Command Shell (command.com)

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Former Todo file #53

Open PerditionC opened 3 years ago

PerditionC commented 3 years ago

From the former TODO file, the below may still need to be done:

PATH: check if environment functions report errors (in general check errors reported by all internal commands and document them)
change size of context (? dynamic, bigger, smaller, not sure goal of this)
Test if "command.com A:\" accepts the A:\command.com (? not sure what this is testing)
IF: MS DOS 6 says: if a,a==a echo OK!!! (in general check syntax compatibility with MS/PC DOS COMMAND.COM and others such as 4DOS and DR DOS COMMAND.COM)

tkchia commented 3 years ago

Hello @PerditionC,

Test if "command.com A:" accepts the A:\command.com (? not sure what this is testing)

Apparently MS-DOS 2+ allows a bare path argument which will tell command.com where it can reload its transient bits from (and also how to set COMSPEC). It seems that FreeCOM does also have such a feature.

Thank you!

PerditionC commented 3 years ago

I have never used it, but yes FreeCom is documented as both supporting passing a path or path and filename which it will then use for comspec (where filename portion is needed if not named command.com) and any resources it needs to load. If the path is not available, then this argument is ignored. So I guess this todo item is to verify FreeCom works as documented. Thanks for directing me to the right area.