I do not know if this is the right place to report this FreCom issue and I do not know if this issue is already well known but I would like to report it anyway. Please inspect the following batch file:
@echo off @echo %0 :loop @echo %1 shift if not "%1" == "" goto loop @echo finished with arguments command.com on MSDOS 6.22, Win98SE and WinXP and also cmd.exe of WinXP will produce the following output: test.bat ./.. ../. if the batch file is started like this: test.bat ./.. ../. If I use FreeCom 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap [August 28 2006 00:32:15] shipped with FreeDOS 1.1 and start the batch file in exactly the same way I get the following output: test.bat . /.. .. /. As can be seen, FreCom seems to interpret any slash as an option marker like in "/?" to get help. All microsoft command.com versions and also cmd.exe do interpret the slash as an option marker only if it is preceded by some kind of blank character. This makes it necessary to quote paths written in unix-style like: "../foo/bar/." if they shall be passed as arguments to a batch file to be processed by FreCom. Is this behavior a bug or a feature? Regards, Juan M. Guerrero ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
