> On Oct 6, 2015, at 5:41 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >
I really haven't had the time. But, if I decide to do a all-in-one version, I would implement it by adjusting each tool to support being built into a single binary. Would not be too difficult. Just time consuming. :) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
