Hi guys, thanks for cleaning up autoexec!
REM - streamlined the network test (user adds their own stuff anyway).
I hope they add it at a place where it actually gets to run :-)
set PATH=%DOSDIR%\BIN if exist %DOSDIR%\LINKS\NUL set PATH=%path%;%DOSDIR%\LINKS
A special test just for one app? I would prefer if LINKS came with a batch wrapper which gets placed in BIN, then PATH does not have to dynamically add the directory of LINKS. If LINKS means such wrappers instead of the browser LINKS, then I suggest to just put all batch wrappers in the BIN directory.
set TZ=UTC
Personally, I prefer RTC having local time. Add a comment here?
alias reboot=fdapm warmboot alias reset=fdisk /reboot
You can also reboot with FDAPM COLDBOOT or FDAPM WARMBOOT.
:SUPPORT286 fdapm APMDOS
This sort of implies that HLT saves no power on 8086? On the other hand, 8086 are low on RAM, so it probably is best to load as few drivers as possible there, yes. In a related thought, we should pick a KSSF swapping or otherwise non-XMS-swapping freecom command.com in ALL cases where no XMS driver is loaded. Be it because the CPU is too old, be it because the user choses some boot menu option without XMS drivers deliberately.
ctmouse
You can compile CuteMouse for 8086, but that uses slightly more RAM. In addition, buggy versions exist where the 8086 compile actually requires a newer CPU. Either way, as we are talking of mice and men, you may want to do this in an "either load this or load that ctmouse version" way instead of and "either load ctmouse or do not load it" way :-)
:SUPPORT386 if "%CONFIG%"=="4" goto SUPPORT386LOW lh fdapm APMDOS REM lh share
In which way is SHARE 386 specific?
:SUPPORT386LOW fdapm APMDOS ctmouse
So SHARE only gets loaded at all if loaded high?
if exist %DOSDIR%\bin\cdrom.bat call %DOSDIR%\bin\cdrom.bat
Do we also have CD-ROM and DVD or BD drivers for 8086 or 286?
if exist %DOSDIR%\bin\fdnet.bat call %DOSDIR%\bin\fdnet.bat start REM - add your own networking commands here: (if any)
I assume that batch autodetects networking at each boot? I believe people may just manually edit autoexec anyway.
if exist %DOSDIR%\bin\fdassist.bat call %DOSDIR%\bin\fdassist.bat if exist %DOSDIR%\bin\cdrom.bat call %DOSDIR%\bin\cdrom.bat display if exist %DOSDIR%\bin\welcome.bat call %DOSDIR%\bin\welcome.bat
For my taste, the boot process is split into too many batch files.
REM nlsfunc %DOSDIR%\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS REM display CON=(EGA,858,2) REM mode CON CP PREP=((858) %DOSDIR%\CPI\EGA.CPX) REM keyb US,858,%DOSDIR%\bin\keyboard.sys REM chcp 858 REM mkeyb UK
You probably want suggest to load all of those earlier. If people just remove the REM, the font and keyboard drivers would get loaded quite late. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
