Hi guys,
I don't have any solution to the problem but while on the topic of FreeCOM and batch file parameters, I have discovered an issue which I believe is a genuine bug.Create a batch file, for example: ECHO %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 Then run it with a parameter like "http://www.example.com/";. It will print http: //www.example.com / while MS-DOS and Windows will print it unmodified.
I can confirm this but I think it's _not_a_bug_, rather intentionally different behavior. (I know, this also means compatibility problems.) Apparently, COMMAND.COM cuts apart switches in the command line into stand-alone arguments. Your example is considered as:
1. a command "http:"; 2. a switch "//www.example.com", with double switch characters; 3. a switch "/", an empty switch.You can prove this by adding "switchar=$" (only one "c"!) to [fd]config.sys which changes the system-wide switch character to "$". Now your example will be printed as "http://www.example.com/"; but "http:$$www.example.com$" will be similary cut into pieces as "http: $$www.example.com $".
Always enclose "suspicious" command line arguments into quotation marks so that they won't be reinterpreted in unexpected ways and that's not even DOS- or COMMAND.COM-specific.
Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! More contacts on homepage
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