Hi! > > That is not needed. You can switch off a FreeDOS PC at any time
> OK, but how should a newbie know this? That is how DOS works. Always has. > He's probably constantly looking > for some kind of "Start" button to shutdown. ;-) Next you will ask me to add a Start menu and explorer the newbie cannot type DIR or ARKANOID any more ;-) Of course there are indeed some DOS distros which boot right into some sort of Midnight Commander or similar with a file manager and a menu to run apps... SUCH a distro should consider adding a SHUTDOWN button ;-) > > 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>" Where would you store that then? You cannot store it in the kernel or in command.com but you could do something like: SET VERSION=FreeDOS 1.1 ALIAS VER=*VER/R ; ECHO %VERSION% If this is bad syntax, try this instead: ALIAS VER=VERSION.BAT :-) > > It only causes problems in SET lines because "set LANG=DE " ... > OK, but does FreeDOS allow to set an environment variable > with a trailing blank? AFAIK MS-DOS does not allow so... It is possible that only SET in config.sys or only SET in a batch file can do that, please try it yourself :-). Note that SET in config.sys is not even possible at all in MS DOS :-D. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
