Re: Feedback needed on BOOTING, CACHING and some HELPER TOOL

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Eric Auer wrote:
| 0x81 get swapped? Bart also writes that autoexec.bat is only read from A:
| or C: when boot drive is "any floppy" or "any harddisk" (at least for
hard-

Actually, FreeCOM executes "\autoexec.bat" and does not care about the
drive issue.

| can point to autoexec.bat at arbitrary position using
/P=x:\foo\bar.bat or so).

Yup.

| Bart also reminded me that FreeDOS -does- have a "prompt for path to the
| command.com" which gets active when the shell is not found or exits un-
| expectedly. I was accidentally requesting the feature again :-). MS DOS
| has this as well. You can enter any program that can stand not having a
| parent process as your new shell at that kernel prompt, I would say.

Not, if my memory serves me right, MS DOS v6 kernel prompt and the MS
COMMAND v6 prompt are identical. (I suspect it's the _same_ code.) If MS
DOS v6 shall execute a non-MS COMMAND v6 shell, SHELL= must be present.
DOS 7 is different, though, as it does not make those simple COMMAND.COM
checks at all.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser

The current maintainer of [email protected]
http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freecom/FreeCOM.html
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