On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 05:53:50 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
>> Yes Arachne works fine on FAT32 at work. However there is a DOS
>> that supports FAT32 :
>> PTS DOS 2000 Pro http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/
>> Supports FAT32, internal UMB and CDROM support
>> (no EMM386 or MSCDEX needed), networking support
> Be warned that trying to set WATTCP.CFG=[directory] on PTS-DOS
> would result in an WATTCP=[directory] . PTS-DOS does not support
> the use of a dot in its enviroment variable names..
> (allready e-mailed the company, never received a reply.)
> Everything else should work fine.
WATTCP also checks the environment variable WATTCFG if WATTCP.CFG is not
present. It _is_ possible to include separators such as "." in
environment variable names, but there's a lot to be changed in order to
do that. Those changes cause the OS to lose much (though not nearly all)
its advantage. I can't remember how it's done, as I choose to KEEP all
the advantages. I do remember it's hidden way back in the documentation,
possibly in a /h to some device driver.
There are a few other utilities that like to place separators in
environment variable names. It's just not "standard DOS" to do so.
Bob
Starts April 1, 2001
-- Arachne V1.67, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
