Hi, On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > >> On Oct 4, 2015, at 10:02 PM, Antony Gordon <cuzint...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It was nice of whomever wrote FreeCOM to include that Windows NT command >> interpreter function.
Presumably Stefan Kaiser (who sadly long ago disappeared). >> I never tested it, but did they also include Delayed Expansion and IF (…) >> ELSE (…) and stuff like %~dpn0? > > Don’t know. AFAIK, no, FreeCOM doesn't support any of that. > As for building them into the shell, there would be definite advantages. > Maybe someday. Nobody ever finished up the (huge) conversion to OpenWatcom. Honestly, the shell is more complicated to build than the kernel! I mean, I like compiling stuff, but FreeCOM just scares me. I think it could definitely be simplified, but I've had other things I'd rather tinker with. > For example, right now V8 sits at about 30k total for the binaries. If they > were combined >> and inserted into a shell, they would require about 10k. Between 800-1200 >> bytes of each >> is duplicated per tool for command line processing. (varies based on what it >> needs to parse) I already mentioned ARK to you, did you not take a look? ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/ark101.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
