Hi, The recent distribution of FreeDOS is very well done and very stable in my first try-outs. I can still remember the days where I would curse the entire thing to hell, just a some years ago. It's a very OS now!
But in just some minutes of installing and configuring it, I have come around some incompatibilities with MS-DOS or even some bugs, or 'hidden features' if you will :) in FreeCom .0.82: 1) You can 'exit' from the ground-interpreter. By this I mean the essential, bottom version of the FreeCom interpreter. That could be nice in some cases, but it's not real MS-DOS behavior. 2) Try to do the following commands. It'll crash FreeCom, saying "Heap corrupted": C:\> md test C:\> cd test C:\TEST> copy a:\. . Please note the 2 dots on the end. I am asking FreeCom to copy all the files in A-root to the current directory. Doing "copy a:\*.*" would do the exact same thing indeed. But this used to work in MS-DOS 6 for sure. 3) Executing "dir .exe" should do the exact same thing as "dir *.exe". This is some short notation in MS-DOS that I used all the time. in EDIT 0.8 1) When you hit ALT and the menu is selected, you need to hit ENTER to actually open it. That is fine for me, but in the MS EDIT you could also press the DOWN-arrow-key. I think it's not such a difficult thing to implement, and it would be a nice thing to add. Voila, more will probably follow, and I am also planning on using the Dutch NLS since I am dutch-speaking, and some proof reading never hurts, right? greetz koder ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
