I think I see what's going on. The purpose of "echo>> reint.scr/" is to add a blank line to the reint.scr file. This works in the MS-DOS COMMAND.COM shell, but not in the FreeDOS COMMAND.COM shell nor in 4DOS.
A (somewhat) more standard way to do this would be to instead use "echo.>> reint.scr" This works in the MS-DOS COMMAND.COM shell, the FreeDOS COMMAND.COM shell, and 4DOS. Normally I'd want to see FreeDOS be more compatible, but in this case even Windows 7 (both in .BAT and .CMD files) works with "echo.>> reint.scr" and gives a similar error when faced with "echo>> reint.scr/" -- so it looks like in this case even Microsoft gave up on the nonstandard syntax! I have no complaints about FreeCOM scripts acting like Windows 7 scripts. Yes, you will have to change every instance of that to make it run under FreeCOM. You could probably find a way to automate it. Once REINT.SCR is made, I'm pretty sure it will run under FreeDOS DEBUG as well as MS-DOS DEBUG. - - Shane Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 06:59:18 -0400 From: donr...@gmail.com To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Debug bug The wayback site link is dead. I will try Christopher's suggestion of adding the filename to the script - but like I said before many,many vintage debug scripts are written without the filename. It would be a real hassle to have to debug every debug script to be FreeDOS friendly. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Christopher Evans <aaxiomfin...@gmail.com> wrote: Can't write to path with out filename specified. -- -Chris Evans Computer Consultant Digitalatoll Solutions (Tawhaki Software) Cell. : 916-612-6904 Office: 916-382-9395 Affordable web hosting, search engine, and secure email provider http://www.digitalatoll.com/ http://www.digitalatoll.net/ http://securemail.digiatoll.net/ http://www.tawhakisoft.com/ Domain for sale : http://norcalhost.com/ On May 27, 2015 11:05 AM, "Don Flowers" <donr...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm was using version 1.25 and using a batch file to reinit my Lotus 1-2-3 install disk. I booted into DOS 5.0 and am using it now. This is the command that causes error: echo>> reinit.scr/ On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What is wrong with debug? - I keep getting cannot redirect error I thought > this bug was fixed. What do you mean? Which version? What are you trying to do, redirect a script? http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=debug http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/debug/DEBUG125.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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