Re: installation problems

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Bart Oldeman wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>
> > However, I slightly remember that some DOS (DR??) executes _either_ /P
> > (== AUTOEXEC.BAT) _or_ the /C/K command, hence, if you have use both, /C
> > or /K overrides /P.
>
> MSDOS 7.10 does that. Well /C and /K do not override /P, but they
> override part of the behaviour of /P.
>
> > I, personally, think that to execute both is more clean.
>
> maybe, but it's not compatible. There is a lot in FreeDOS that could be
> cleaner but isn't for compatibility reasons. The problem is that /P does
> two things.

Well on the other hand, the FreeCOM behaviour is compatible with
4DOS which allows

/P:another.bat

too. Here ':' may be replaced by '='.

Another feature of DOS is that nothing is consistent :)

Bart