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 -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
