I have it working very well on one machine now, using 4 separate batch
files and the FREETEST utility to ensure there's adequate space to do an
installation. Next step is to test the CD on some of the other machines
around here to probe for hardware and/or firmware dependencies before I
start shari
Bernd wrote:
> Maybe easiest even to use 4DOS as shell as that allows more
> complex scripts.
Agreed.
As far as I can tell, the 4DOS structures
IFF / ELSEIFF / ELSE / ENDIFF
and
SWITCH / CASE / DEFAULT / ENDSWITCH
work perfectly -- and they can be nested to many levels.
I have many 4DOS BAT
Op 28-11-2012 6:39, bruce.bowman tds.net schreef:
> Something is definitely wrong with nonexistent drive D:, and I suspected
> the source to be one or both of the USB device drivers usbaspi.sys or
> di1000dd.sys. These drivers were the ones recommended by the DFSee live
> CD that I've been hacking
Bret -- I booted up my CD and ran your DRIVES program. Here's the output in
a small monospaced font, I hope you can read it:
DRIVES 0.01, (C) 2007-2009, Bret E. Johnson.
Shows details about all available disk drives in DOS.
ATTRIBS
Í A
D N N S
I'll give it a try later, thanks.
It's important to understand that once I boot into FreeDOS there is no
physical disk partition corresponding to drive D:. My FAT32 partition
(which is drive D: under XP) gets mapped to drive C: in FreeDOS. However, I
do have a drive E:, which is the USB thumbdrive
You can look at the output of my DRIVES program for the D: drive when using
FreeDOS. It will probably indicate that something is wrong in one or more of
DOS's internal tables. DRIVES is not intended to be used in batch files, but
simply displays some information about all of the drive letters
I'm not inclined to bash XP too much. Windoze ME was the Vista of its time.
You know what I'm talking about.
If Linux had someone doing marketing -- and bundling it with new PCs --
that's what everyone would be running today. Don't get me started. :^)
Bruce
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Rugx
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:25 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
wrote:
> I've not written or edited a lot of files using the command line in XP but
> it seems to be able to read and write to any supported file system without
> problems. Hard to say exactly what is handling that but I seriously doubt
>
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:21 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
>>
>> But usually you should (mostly) be able to know in advance what drive
>> letters you are choosing, and save that info for later.
>
> Having booted from a CD with an OS that probably can't read all his
> partitions, we can't assume the
I've not written or edited a lot of files using the command line in XP but
it seems to be able to read and write to any supported file system without
problems. Hard to say exactly what is handling that but I seriously doubt
I'll be calling any interrupts in my batch program. :^)
Thanks again for
> > for %%d in (c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x) do (
>
> for %%d in (c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x) do call blah1.bat
>
> > if exist %%d:\mygame\ (
>
> if exist %%d:\mygame\ call blah2.bat
Yeah, that's pretty much where I was headed.
> Perhaps you could run a subshe
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:50 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
wrote:
>
> One correction: on my XP machine using the CMD command interpreter, whichfat
> reports every existing drive as FAT16. I guess that kinda makes sense as
> it's the native format for DOS and I guess Windows converts file formats
>
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:43 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
wrote:
>
> My batch file seems to have two problems, one of which is that FreeDOS does
> not allow compound IFs and/or FOR nesting of any kind. I can work around
> that, but the second problem is the one that I'm really struggling with.
.
And clarification: I get the dreaded (A)bort (I)gnore (R)etry (F)ail
options along with the error message.
Bruce
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:50 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
wrote:
> One correction: on my XP machine using the CMD command interpreter,
> whichfat reports every existing drive as FAT16. I
One correction: on my XP machine using the CMD command interpreter,
whichfat reports every existing drive as FAT16. I guess that kinda makes
sense as it's the native format for DOS and I guess Windows converts file
formats before doing disk i/o.
Booting under DOS 6.22, whichfat reports FAT drive f
My batch file seems to have two problems, one of which is that FreeDOS does
not allow compound IFs and/or FOR nesting of any kind. I can work around
that, but the second problem is the one that I'm really struggling with.
Some background: When I boot up using my new CD, the floppy drive image is
a
Right now I have something like this going on.
A: is the floppy bootup image.
B: could be a floppy so I don't want that to be probed
Y: is the drive letter assigned to the CD that I booted from.
Z: is a ramdrive.
for %%d in (c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x) do (
if exist %%d:\mygame
Op 27-11-2012 6:45, bruce.bowman tds.net schreef:
> In fact I am essentially done with my project but still want something I
> can throw in a batch file to probe for writeable drive letters so I can
> give the user an opportunity to save a game and resume later (like they
> used to).
DOS kernels
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:45 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
wrote:
>
> Freeware program VFD (virtual floppy drive) seems to be doing quite well for
> me at the moment for editing floppy images. The program will not fit on a
> floppy but this appears to be a prerequisite.
Even compressed? I can cr
Freeware program VFD (virtual floppy drive) seems to be doing quite well
for me at the moment for editing floppy images. The program will not fit on
a floppy but this appears to be a prerequisite.
In fact I am essentially done with my project but still want something I
can throw in a batch file to
Hi,
If you just want to make a bootable .ISO from floppy image, you can
use MKBISO.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm
You can edit and modify the floppy image file from QEMU (etc). Reading
and writing to floppy can be done with dd and/or Raread and Rawrite
(etc).
O
Whoa!!,
The magicdisk appears to be a hack; from some of it's online description,
probably from Asia, judging by grammatical errors. It does'nt work right:
when you click on the shortcut, it only puts a virtual cd in the task
panel, and keeps trying to access the internet. Fortunately, I always
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