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

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Bart Oldeman wrote:

> By the way, trying to use FreeCOM (beta46) as primary command shell with
> MSDOS 7.1 I get this (using shell=c:\freecom.com /e:8096 /p):
>
> "
> FreeCOM executable not found.
> You must specify the complete path to COMMAND.COM
> as the first argument of COMMAND, for instance:
> C:\FDOS

It does not get a correct argv[0], then.
Needs to be investigated.

> No big deal, but just to mention it. Using the suggested
> shell=c:\freecom.com c:\ /e:8096 /p
> does not help. This could be a bug in DOS 7.1, because the FreeDOS kernel
> handles this just fine :)

The search name is COMMAND.COM, not FREECOM.COM :-), hence, you have to:
1) rename FREECOM.COM into COMMAND.COM, or
2) use the absolute _file_name as the first argument, e.g.:
SHELL=C:\FREECOM.COM C:\FREECOM.COM /e:8096 /P

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser

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