Re: Re: Beta vs. Stable

 Eric Auer  wrote: <

> Hi, Francisco mentioned troubles using the same code for FreeDOS
> and Windows: If you do not need long file names in your batch files,
> why not run them in FreeCOM (command.com of FreeDOS) instead of in
> MS command.com?
>
> I think most programs work very much the MS way in FreeDOS. But they
> have additional features :-). Please tell us some examples where the
> differences are big enough to really disturb you.
>
> Eric
>

    No, really they arent big enough to disturb... but, for example:

Find:  If you look for a string in a file in a different directory than the
current,  Freedos doesnt find the archiv even if you give it the complete
addres (drive/dir) while MS Find gets the report. In some macros I look for
the same string in files of different dirs. In MS  it finds all of them, in
Freedos only in the files of the current dir... Excuse my ignorance but in
the begining I didnt discover why they differed...

Find: In Freedos, the report shows at the top the file without the path,
while in MS shows the hole path and file name. Again, inside a macro,
a -small!- danger to be confused in which file the string was found (I have
repeted names in the out of date records). In my case my macro breaks
because it cant find c:\p in the report.

Dir: you already showed how some options wasnt improved yet (/o etc). One
macro try to make one dir with the /o option, but it wasnt generated (in my
case I was slightly confused because in the dirs help appears the o/
options, so I dint tested them....)

Xcopy: you have just analized the behavior...

    No, as you see they are very small problems. Everything works surprisely
fine.
My opinion meants only to remark that it would be interesting, when posible,
follow the MS notation because this permit better compatibility with less
small troubles. This even would be more important for the programs and
comands used in indirect mode, because when you use them in direct mode you
can verify easy the notation.
     But please, let me congratulate all of the manteiners and developers of
Freedos because those details are insignificant compared with the state
reached in the hole work.
    Best regards.
     Francisco.