Hi Jerome, if you want to store temp results in your batch, you could work with errorlevels, the FreeCOM magic errorlevel variable or indeed a ramdrive. In the past, we often used "memdisk", which is a BOOTABLE RAMDRIVE. That way, the installer used a virtual floppy to boot. As you cannot natively boot DOS from network, CD, DVD or BluRay, you have to use a virtual boot disk for those anyway. Memdisk gives you the advantage that the virtual boot disk is a writeable ramdrive floppy.
Memdisk is a bit more esotheric compared to using a floppy image to directly make a CD or similar bootable, but both methods work on most BIOS variants. As more and more users have a BIOS which can boot from USB stick or SD cards, the whole problem can be sidestepped with a bootable USB / SD. Disadvantage of both methods is that the files inside the boot "floppy" are less visible and less editable to people who want to tune the boot CD / DVD image to their needs, they tend to overlook the floppy image and / or lack the tools needed to edit it, although free tools are available for all common operating systems :-) Cheers, Eric PS: Why does FORMAT C: need pipes? You do not want to hide messages and if you worry about confirmation requests, I personally vote AGAINST automated saying yes to FORMAT C: (also, our FORMAT has a command line option for that...). > If no writeable file system is present, DOS throws many errors > and cannot redirect the data from one program to another. Many? Only if you try to explicitly use pipes ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
