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From: Willi Wasser <wiw...@web.de>
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 4:12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help
> hello,
> I want to use ntool to redirect output of dhcp to wattcp.cfg.
> I am confused by the -g command line option. what does <str> mean?
> does anyone know what I would enter, using ntool to redirect output of dhcp
> to
>wattcp.cfh?
The short answer is: NTOOL -g " " > WATTCP.CFG
Use one (or more) space characters enclosed in a pair of quotatation marks for
<str>. This would give you something like:
MY_IP=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.254
NAMESERVER=192.76.23.54
i just tried to run ntool and i got back an ip address of:
MY_IP=0.0.0.0
i am trying to run lynx, and when i try to start lynx i get an error saying all
attempts at getting an ip address have failed. the ntool command i used was
ntool -g " " > C:\FDOS\LYNX\WATTCP.CFG
i have typed out the wattcp.cfg file after running ntool and it says my ip as
alll zeroes.
another question,
when using ntool to get info for wattcp.cfg i first am running ntool with the
-g
command line option,
then i use the set command to set wattcp.cfg to where i had ntool redirect the
info to, and then i try to start lynx. i am just wondering, in regards to my
info should that work, i was thinking like you suggested of somehow writing
some
batch files if i could get lynx up and running. but i havent been able to start
it yet.
btw i used mTCP to get my network info. and that seems to be working.
thanks for the help.
which is exactly what you need as a (minimal) WATTCP.CFG file. If you need a
more sohisticated WATTCP.CFG set-up, you could write a second file (say
WATTCP0.CFG), that holds all those entries not provided by NTOOL. e.g. like
this:
TXBUFSIZE=8196
RXBUFSIZE=8196
PRINTER1NAME=LPT1
you would then add some lines like the following ones to your start-up batch
file:
NTOOL -g " " > WATTCP.CFG
TYPE WATTCP0.CFG >> WATTCP.CFG
please observe the double chevrons in the second line, they cause the content
of
the second file to be appended to the first one. Otherwise you would just
clobber it.
Now, what is the purpose of <str> at all?
The long answer is: It gives you more flexibility. If it is anything but a
string that consists only of blanks, then <str> will be prepended to each line
of NTOOL's output. If you try e.g.
NTOOL -g "SET "
(mind the space between the "T" and the closing quotation mark) then you would
get something like this:
SET MY_IP=192.168.1.1
SET NETMASK=255.255.255.0
SET GATEWAY=192.168.1.254
SET NAMESERVER=192.76.23.54
re-directing this into a batch file and then calling that (secondary) batchfile
from the primary one like this:
NTOOL -g "SET " > SETPARM.BAT
@CALL SETPARM.BAT
will cause environment variables to be set with the respective values. These
variables can then be further processed (used) in many ways.
Or you try
NTOOL -g "ECHO " > IPCONFIG.BAT
which would mimic the IPCONFIG commmand known from other TCP/IP implementations.
The reason for the somewhat confusing character of <str> is that the routine
within NTOOL that parses the command line only supports command line switches
(like -g) that have either allways an argument or never. Optional arguments are
not supported. Therefore the "dummy" string is required, even if you actually
don't want to prepend anything. But i think, this is just an inconvenience, not
a real problem.
BTW, do you know the meaning of the acronym RTFM? :-)
no. maybe rich text something? i dont know?
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