Re: [Freedos-devel] Insight requested on drive letter assignation in DOS

2012-04-06 Thread Jim Michaels
I have a program, mbr, which can print the mbr of a physical disk number.  this would allow you to see a report of the MBR of the disk (up to 4 partitions), and examine a BIOS or windows disk number.  it is available for both windows and dos. I find that the bios disk number 0 and the windows'

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom with OpenWatcom

2012-04-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Travis Siegel wrote: > > I've not checked lately, but I thought command.com was a (renamed) > exe file, and that it was compressed with lzexe or something similar > (the freeware clone of exepack if I remember correctly) so that's > likely why yours is larger

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom with OpenWatcom

2012-04-06 Thread Travis Siegel
I've not checked lately, but I thought command.com was a (renamed) exe file, and that it was compressed with lzexe or something similar (the freeware clone of exepack if I remember correctly) so that's likely why yours is larger than the distributed version.

[Freedos-devel] FreeCom with OpenWatcom

2012-04-06 Thread cordata02
Does anyone have experience with building FreeCom under Open Watcom? I've been able to build it (Thanks Bart!) but see a couple of issues: The REN command does not work if the file to be renamed does not have an extenstion. For example the command "REN myfile myfile.txt" fails. There is also