Hi,
Why is there a welcome anyway? MS-DOS (and PC-DOS for that matter) just
booted, loaded drivers and dropped you to a command prompt. Microsoft (or
IBM) never welcomed you to anything. If you wanted a welcome, check out
that nice 3-ring binder with the DOS reference pages (I go way back to 2.1).
It seems to me (before you get to FDCONFIG.SYS and FDAUTO.BAT) that FreeDOS
feels like a Unix distro with all the diag boot stuff.
Just my quarter of a cent.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 10:21 AM Rugxulo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I was thinking of pulling the “autoexec & config loaded", "Welcome to
> FreeDOS”
> > and "type help” messages out of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and placing them
> in a
> > %DOSDIR%\BIN\WELCOME.BAT file with the language translation files in
> > %DOSDIR%\NLS\WELCOME.%LANG%. Also, installing them via a WELCOME.ZIP
> > package. At present, FDI embeds the required stuff into a newly created
> > AUTOEXEC.BAT.
>
> Not the worst idea (although it's not very much crucial info).
>
> > 1) This would make the AUTOEXEC.BAT file a little cleaner with just a:
> >
> > if exist %DOSDIR%\BIN\WELCOME.BAT CALL %DOSDIR%\BIN\WELCOME.BAT
>
> Okay, but just for the record, there are some (very minor) problems with
> this:
>
> Having the file name and path twice is redundant, thus harder to
> change, more error-prone, etc.
>
> A better solution would be something like "for %%a in
> (%DOSDIR%\BIN\welcome.bat) do if exist %%a call %%a".
>
> Of course, just "call %DOSDIR%\BIN\welcome.bat" isn't horrible either,
> just a mild error message if not found, which is benign, so you can
> just ignore it. It's not worth overthinking minor things like this,
> they don't need error checking.
>
> > 2) Easily remove the messages with a "fdinst remove welcome” command.
>
> It's probably not even obtrusive enough to even bother "removing".
>
> > Thoughts?
>
> That's all. :-)
>
>
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