Hi, On Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 8:49 AM Seth Simon <sethsi...@sdf.org> wrote:
> > In MS-DOS 6.22, neither "if exist ::\nul echo exist" nor "if exist Q:\nul > echo exist" (where Q is a drive that doesn't exist) will cause anything to > be echoed. I know this is a common DOS idiom, but keep in mind that I don't recall this kludge working with XP's CMD. So it's a bit brittle (like all such similar tricks). But .... But in all 3 of commandg.com, commandt.com, and commandw.com, both of those > commands will echo "exist". But it's not a regression because 0.84-pre2 > does the same thing (the FreeCom tests were done under FreeDOS, not MS-DOS). > Ah, then this is that same bug/regression in kernel 2042 (only). Try older 2041, it should work fine there. (I'm pretty sure Jeremy already knows about it.) >
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