Hi Marco, > I would like to write an alternative interpreter command > to replace command.com/Freecom.
That can be as easy or as hard as you want. > I have basic programming knowledge. Good. > I'm clear that I must to provide a replacement > for all internal commands. No. Almost any program can be "the shell". Even something which is working completely mouse based without any ability to receive keyboard input. But of course "the shell" is the only shell you have. So if your shell does not have a "DIR", then you cannot see which files you have... ;-). And if your shell cannot run other programs, then your shell will be the only program you can run :-p. > Can I simply write my program in my favorite language, > compile as stand alone exe and rename it as command.com? You do not even have to rename it. Just enter the name of your program in the SHELL line instead of command.com... You should use the config sys menu system. Then you can have 2 different SHELL lines, one with classic command.com and one with your new shell, with a menu selection at boot time. Then you can always use the classic shell again. Note that the shell also runs autoexec bat - if your shell does not run autoexec bat, then nothing else will run it. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
