Re: [Freedos-user] if not exist? / Garbo's TSBAT
Updated it, now compiles under gcc on linux and freedos using Borland C... http://digitalatoll.com/pub/DMSOFT/exist.zip -- The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] if not exist? / Garbo's TSBAT
-Original Message- From: Rugxulo [mailto:rugx...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 12:24 AM To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] if not exist? / Garbo's TSBAT Hi, On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:40 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Ray Davison ray...@charter.net wrote: Is there something like this in FD? IF NOT EXIST X:\ZZZ MD X:\ZZZ Everything in front of the MD is ignored, and there is an error if X:\ZZZ does exist. IF NOT EXIST X:\ZZZ\NUL MD X:\ZZZ should do what you want. For completeness (though someone correct me if I'm remembering incorrectly), this hack is a typical DOS idiom, but ... 1). It doesn't work under WinXP's CMD.EXE (etc.) 2). DR-DOS' shell prefers direxist 3). 4DOS supports both direxist and isdir I don't know about DR-DOS or 4DOS, but this DOES work in Windows XP and Windows 7. It's just not necessary, because IF EXISTS works for directories with or without the \NUL on the end. D -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] if not exist? / Garbo's TSBAT
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: IF NOT EXIST X:\ZZZ\NUL MD X:\ZZZ should do what you want. For completeness (though someone correct me if I'm remembering incorrectly), this hack is a typical DOS idiom, but ... 1). It doesn't work under WinXP's CMD.EXE (etc.) It's not *needed* under 2K/XP CMD.EXE. Its IF EXIST tests for directories, too. 2). DR-DOS' shell prefers direxist 3). 4DOS supports both direxist and isdir Correct. I suppose it's *possible* to create a portable batch file that tries to figure out what environment it's running in and does the right thing for that environment. I wouldn't even try. If I need to use IF EXIST X:\ZZZ\NUL to know if X:\ZZZ exists or must be created, it's a special case, and I'll do the right thing for that environment. Timo Salmi had some good .BAT (and .CMD) FAQs back in the day. I should really email him to ask him for permission to mirror them (not sure if they are technically free/libre or not), esp. since Garbo went kaput. EDIT: Err, maybe not. :-( http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/garbo.html http://www.netikka.net/tsneti/info/tscmd.php An important note to Garbo repository users: The workstation hosting the Garbo repository at the University of Vaasa, Finland has broken down during 2012. The university's Computer Centre has informed me that it will not be replaced. Thus all the potentially remaining direct references to the utilities at Garbo in this FAQ are out of date. It had been hosted on his personal workstation. He retired, and it died. The University had funding issues, and chose not to spend the money to replace and continue to support the machine. However, tscmd.zip continues to be available, now at a private ISP address. You may freely download it for your own, private purposes. But contrary to some past Garbo exceptional arrangements, I do not give permissions to mirroring, that is carrying my materials for downloading at other locations. (I am retired, fully served, since September 2011. I now say routinely no to all requests.) Well, no huge loss, as long as he still mirrors it online. He is also still active in comp.os.msdos and elsewhere, and IIRC, his FAQs are posted there. Pity, though: Garbo mirrored a lot of old stuff besides Timo's contributions. They can be found elsewhere, but Timo's collection was the first place a lot of folks looked. __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] if not exist? / Garbo's TSBAT
Hi, On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:40 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Ray Davison ray...@charter.net wrote: Is there something like this in FD? IF NOT EXIST X:\ZZZ MD X:\ZZZ Everything in front of the MD is ignored, and there is an error if X:\ZZZ does exist. IF NOT EXIST X:\ZZZ\NUL MD X:\ZZZ should do what you want. For completeness (though someone correct me if I'm remembering incorrectly), this hack is a typical DOS idiom, but ... 1). It doesn't work under WinXP's CMD.EXE (etc.) 2). DR-DOS' shell prefers direxist 3). 4DOS supports both direxist and isdir Timo Salmi had some good .BAT (and .CMD) FAQs back in the day. I should really email him to ask him for permission to mirror them (not sure if they are technically free/libre or not), esp. since Garbo went kaput. EDIT: Err, maybe not. :-( http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/garbo.html http://www.netikka.net/tsneti/info/tscmd.php An important note to Garbo repository users: The workstation hosting the Garbo repository at the University of Vaasa, Finland has broken down during 2012. The university's Computer Centre has informed me that it will not be replaced. Thus all the potentially remaining direct references to the utilities at Garbo in this FAQ are out of date. However, tscmd.zip continues to be available, now at a private ISP address. You may freely download it for your own, private purposes. But contrary to some past Garbo exceptional arrangements, I do not give permissions to mirroring, that is carrying my materials for downloading at other locations. (I am retired, fully served, since September 2011. I now say routinely no to all requests.) Well, no huge loss, as long as he still mirrors it online. -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] if not exist? / Garbo's TSBAT
For those that cant use the NUL trick they can use exist.exe it will check for dir and file name and return errorlevel. http://digitalatoll.com/pub/DMSOFT/exist.zip -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
