Eric Auer wrote:

> > Upon boot FreeDOS 1.0 AUTOEXEC.BAT prints "type HELP to get support..."
> > and "Welcome to FreeDOS". Please also echo two lines for aliases
> > "reboot" and "halt"...
> 
> That is not needed. You can switch off a FreeDOS PC at any time
> without causing problems.

OK, but how should a newbie know this? He's probably constantly looking
for some kind of "Start" button to shutdown. ;-)

> the version of the distro. Basically the distro is whatever
> you want it to do, and can use any kernel and shell version.

What's why I vote for printing "FreeDOS <distro version>".

> > And please strip trailing blanks from FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
> 
> This is probably caused by things like
> echo device=something > fdconfig.sys
> where the space between something and > is echoed as well.

Seems so.

> It only causes problems in SET lines because "set LANG=DE "
> (note the trailing space) sets LANG to "DE " and there are
> no translations of htmlhelp and apps for "DE ", only for DE.

OK, but does FreeDOS allow to set an environment variable with a
trailing blank? AFAIK MS-DOS does not allow so and as FreeDOS aims to be
a perfect MS-DOS clone...

> Please check if the issues are already mentioned here:
> 
> > http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall
> > http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdDependencies

I already know these pages by heart, but thanks anyway. ;-)

Robert Riebisch
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BTTR Software
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