Hi Jeremy, while you are at it:
Wondering how Jerome could test whether the current shell is FreeCOM without needing temp files, I found out that half of the SET options are not yet listed in SET /? help. The currently available actual options of SET would be: SET test=one results in TEST=one SET /C test=one results in test=one (keep case of variable name) SET /U test=one results in TEST=ONE (uppercase variable value) SET /P test=one shows "one:" as prompt, TEST = user entered value SET /E test=one runs command "one", uses 1st returned line as value SET /I displays information about environment size and memory usage Note that SET /E requires a temp file, so it has the same problem as pipelines: It only works with writeable temp dir. You usually want to add a space after the prompt, for example: "SET /P test=please enter a value " with " " after "value". Also note that while SET /E test=vol sets TEST to the message which VOL produces about your volume label (which will depend on which language your FreeCOM has) you cannot SET /E test=ver because VER always first displays one EMPTY line before starting to show version information, so it behaves like "SET test=" and deletes the varible TEST instead of setting it to anything ;-) Maybe you could update the help messages. Thanks! Do you have suggestions for easy, temp-file-free detection of FreeCOM in BAT which works even with older versions of FreeCOM? Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
