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 -- 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
