Re: [Freedos-user] some questions

[Eric Auer]

Hi!

  2008/05/23 18:15 +0200, Mateusz Viste 
 You could also use the ALIAS command, you wouldn't need separate files
 for all your programs anymore.
 

 Is this as good as VMS s use of environmental symbols, better than the
 Unix-shell alias because the OS also uses it? An alias that worked at the
 level at which PATH works would be wunderful.

Alias in freecom command.com just does string substitution
before the command is actually processed, as far as I remember.

You can probably ALIAS ls into dir (where dir is inside the
shell) and you can probably ALIAS shuffle into sort (where
sort is a tool which can be found in the PATH) :-). Examples:

alias inf=for %%f in (readm* *.txt *.do? *.diz *.me) do pg %%f
alias ssh=ssh2dos -t vt100 -v -n -g
alias filemave=c:\tools\fmaven\fm3
alias reboot=fdapm warmboot
alias MAKE=echo use tcmake or gnumake please. Make arguments:

The file maven alias is useful because the fmaven directory
is not in my PATH. So it has remote similarity to a symlink.

Eric



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[Freedos-user] Fresh XCOPY bugs

[John Hupp]

I'm using XCOPY for a selective restore CD, and for most directories it 
works fine, but I have identified a couple cases where it fails due to the 
directory name.

Where D: is the CD:

Case 1:
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XCOPY  /E /V /Y /I  D:\GAMES\F-PROT  C:\GAMES\F-PROT

First of all, XCOPY asks Does F-PROT specify a file name or directory name 
on the target?  With the /I switch, it is not supposed to ask me that 
question, and it does not ask for copies of other directories.

Worse, though it does create C:\GAMES\F-PROT, it does not copy any of the 
contents of the F-PROT directory.  Instead, it begins copying into F-PROT 
other GAMES sub-directories: GAMES\ABUSE gets copied to GAMES\F-PROT\ABUSE, 
GAMES\DOOM to GAMES\F-PROT\DOOM, etc.

Case 2:
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XCOPY D:\GAMES\F-PROT C:\GAMES\F-PROT

Again it asks File or Directory, and that is OK without the /I switch here. 
But after I answer Directory, XCOPY copy responds with:
File not found - F-PROT
0 file(s) copied

Case 3:
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XCOPY D:\GAMES\QUEEN.SAV C:\GAMES\QUEEN.SAV

The response is similar to Case 1, except that XCOPY does not ask File or 
Directory.  Instead, it copies none of the F-PROT contents but immediately 
begins copying other GAMES sub-directories into GAMES\F-PROT (as in Case 1).

Case 4:
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XCOPY D:\GAMES\QUEEN.SAV C:\GAMES\QUEEN.SAV

The response is exactly the same as for Case 2.

--John Hupp 


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