Op 2-10-2011 0:45, Bernd Blaauw schreef: see inline, silly ISPs at time blocking mails..
Bernd > Op 2-10-2011 0:04, Eduardo Casino schreef: > >> Wow, that's feedback! :-) > > np, at times I tend to know what I want out of usefull things. > >> See below, this was intentional. > > Pity, as DOS is horrible at working with driveletters. "Make a single > shared folder, name it anything you want, and the batch script will find > the files contained in the share once you run VMSMOUNT". > > @echo off > set drives=A B C D .. Z > vmsmount.exe > if errorlevel 27 goto end > for %%x in ( %drives% ) do if errorlevel H%%x set vmdrive=%%x: > echo Shared Folder detected and assigned driveletter %vmdrive% > if exist %vmdrive%\FDBOOTCD.ISO echo FreeDOS ISO found at > %vmdrive%\FDBOOTCD.ISO > if exist %vmdrive%\FDOS\FDBOOTCD.ISO echo ISO at \FDOS > if exist %vmdrive%\SETUP.BAT echo SETUP at %vmdrive% > >> Well, that's in the VMware Player manual ;-) > > Who reads manuals, right? :) > >> Now documented in the README > > Looking great (with a typo above at unicode.orgw somehow) > >> Done. > > Great, see above for (pseudo) detection code for inside batchfiles. > I'm not sure the batchfiles I'm using would be directory proof (for > example SETUP.BAT assuming it's at root of drive instead of in a > subdirectory). > > As mentioned earlier, I'd prefer if only a single share, to have it as > the driveletter. Much easier for scripts as I've got no clue how to work > with directories: > for %%x in ( list_of_dirs ) do echo Found dir: %%x > (which won't work) > >> External files are supported at runtime. They are only needed during >> driver initialisation. > > rem load > SET LANG=EN > VMSMOUNT.EXE > rem errormessage in EN? in NL? > SET LANG=NL > VMSMOUNT.EXE > >> This is how it works in any other OS. In Linux, all shares are mounted >> under the same mount point and in Windows under the same letter. >> >> I think it is a VMware's design feature. The idea is that, when the >> player detects that the guest additions are installed, you can add, >> remove, enable or disable shares when the machine is running and this >> is much easier if all shares are under a single mount point. > > So VMware creates a driveletter as well inside the guest even if 0 > shares? I'm thinking more along the lines of SUBST: > example SUBST X: C:\DOWNLOAD > ergo VMSMOUNT /L:X > (where it doesn't matter what the share's name is) > so in both cases I'd see files by > IF EXIST X:\MYFILE.ISO ECHO FOUND FILE, GOOD! > >> This is not the case with vmsmount because I'm yet to find how to >> register with the virtual machine as a guest addition and you need to >> power off the VM to modify the shared folders configuration, but this >> will change eventually. > > Are all shares automatically mounted? Or can you specify which ones > you'd like? (inside the guest I mean, not as virtual machine config) > >>> Even DOS device names exist, unlike most installable file drivers / >>> redirectors / TSRs. >>> (IF EXIST X:\NUL echo YES) >> >> I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug :P I'll look into it. > > No idea either. Thanks for the improvements so far. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
