Hi, I wrote 2 tools which might be useful for the installer: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ tiny-file-append-concat.zip Usage: "concat somefile.xyz" will append the contents of somefile.xyz to the end of target.bin (name "target.bin" is hardcoded). Sometimes better than copy /b, because you can avoid temp files sometimes, and sometimes worse, because the target name is hardcoded and no wildcards are allowed. Based on a problem of Tyler, who wanted to add raw audio snippets to an existing raw audio file, without having to copy /b the whole file every time. We found that TYPE is not suitable for binary data, so...
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ boot-sector-save-n-analyze-oscheck.zip Usage: "oscheck x:" writes the boot sector of drive x: to a file bootsect.bin in the current directory. This is an improved version of SAVEBS, because you can specify the drive letter on the command line and it does drive locking like SYS does. In addition, OSCHECK searches the boot sector for typical kernel file names. When such a string is found, OSCHECK looks for the corresponding file on disk. Both on-screen messages and returned errorlevels give you detailled information about which FORMAT/SYS tool was probably used and whether the disk seems to be bootable and for which OS. Example: "IBMDOS COM string found" but "ibmdos.com file not found" means that the disk was probably formatted with PC DOS or DR DOS but not SYSed. Please read the help message and the source code for more details. Both tools are quite SMALL: concat is 0.5k and OSCHECK is 1.5k :-)). Enjoy! Eric. PS: I think using OSCHECK in a batch script might be more useful than adding the functionality of OSCHECK to SYS - the command line syntax of SYS is already complex enough (because it contains SYS, with some possible parameter overrides and boot sector file writing etc., as well as SYS CONFIG which is a tool to set config variables in a kernel binary). ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
