Hi,

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I do not know if this is the right place to report this FreCom issue

Dunno, not sure it's actively maintained by anyone anymore.

http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=command
http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/svn/HEAD/tree/freecom/

> I do not know if this issue is already well known but I would like to
> report it anyway.
>
> If I use FreeCom 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap [August 28 2006  00:32:15] shipped
> with FreeDOS 1.1 and start the batch file in exactly the same way I get
> the following output:
>
> As can be seen, FreCom seems to interpret any slash as an option marker
> like in "/?" to get help.  All microsoft command.com versions and also cmd.exe
> do interpret the slash as an option marker only if it is preceded by some
> kind of blank character.  This makes it necessary to quote paths written in
> unix-style like:
>    "../foo/bar/."
> if they shall be passed as arguments to a batch file to be processed by 
> FreCom.
> Is this behavior a bug or a feature?

I definitely reported this same quirk to somebody a few years ago.
Obviously it was never fixed. It was probably just an unintentional
flaw or too obscure to worry about. I mean, most DOS programs don't
use *nix slashes as path separators.

I wish I had better news for you like, "I made a fix", but it's not
really that easy. (Not impossible, just very annoying.)

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