Am 18.07.2014 22:30, schrieb Rugxulo: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero > <juan.guerr...@gmx.de> wrote: >> I do not know if this is the right place to report this FreCom issue > Dunno, not sure it's actively maintained by anyone anymore. I feared this.
>> I do not know if this issue is already well known but I would like to >> report it anyway. >> >> 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: >> >> 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? > I definitely reported this same quirk to somebody a few years ago. > Obviously it was never fixed. It was probably just an unintentional > flaw or too obscure to worry about. I mean, most DOS programs don't > use *nix slashes as path separators. > > I wish I had better news for you like, "I made a fix", but it's not > really that easy. (Not impossible, just very annoying.) > This is not really disappointing. I was only testing for the possibility to recommend the FreeDOS 1.1 distribution as an alternative to WinXP and/or Win98SE to build DJGPP ports but this seems not really be possible due to different issues and limitations. 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
