Eric Auer wrote:

> > OK, but how should a newbie know this?
> 
> That is how DOS works. Always has.

*I* know, but I'm talking about a newbie trying FreeDOS in QEMU or
another VM.

> > 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 ;-)

No, because FreeDOS already prints "use HELP". But it doesn't mention
"halt" or "reboot".

> > > 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?

Just hard-code it. ;-)

> It is possible that only SET in config.sys or only SET in a
> batch file can do that, please try it yourself :-).

This also works on the command line and so that's a bug, because batch
files could somehow rely on the MS-DOS behaviour.

Robert Riebisch
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