Re: [Freedos-devel] REMember a bug

2022-01-08 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Jose, > On Jan 8, 2022, at 7:46 PM, Jose Senna wrote: > > Jerome Shidel said: > >> REM this thing [[x|4]] or later >> in one of its remarks. Every time the batch >> was executed, it displayed a “4]]” command not found error. > > It is not a bug, "|" is the sign for a pipe, so the >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Simple Senet v 1.0

2022-01-08 Thread TK Chia
Hello Jim, I think yes. It's a complete game - and since I've been playing *a lot of it* in the last two weeks, I'm pretty sure it's bug-free. Let's include it in FreeDOS 1.3. While trying to get Senet to build with gcc-ia16 + libi86, I came across a bit of a gremlin in the Senet code: for

[Freedos-devel] REMember a bug

2022-01-08 Thread Jose Senna
Jerome Shidel said: > REM this thing [[x|4]] or later > in one of its remarks. Every time the batch > was executed, it displayed a “4]]” command not found error. It is not a bug, "|" is the sign for a pipe, so the parser thinks the output should be piped to 4]]. Of course, one would expect

Re: [Freedos-devel] REMember a bug

2022-01-08 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Sat, 8 Jan 2022, Jerome Shidel wrote: Hi all, As everyone knows and the docs clearly state, everything after a REM is ignored. However, I recently noticed an issue with a batch file that had something like: REM this thing [[x|4]] or later in one of its remarks. Every time the batch was

Re: [Freedos-devel] REMember a bug

2022-01-08 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
On Saturday, January 8th, 2022 at 7:17 PM, Jerome Shidel jer...@shidel.net wrote: > ... > > Personally, I think it should be fixed. No one should be using that. > > ... Agreed 100%. :)___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

[Freedos-devel] REMember a bug

2022-01-08 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi all, As everyone knows and the docs clearly state, everything after a REM is ignored. However, I recently noticed an issue with a batch file that had something like: REM this thing [[x|4]] or later in one of its remarks. Every time the batch was executed, it displayed a “4]]” command not

[Freedos-devel] Codebreaker - a number puzzle for DOS

2022-01-08 Thread Jim Hall
I updated the Wordy word-puzzle game to create a number-based puzzle called Codebreaker. The concept is similar: You have 5 attempts to guess a random 5-digit number. Each number is only used once. It sounds simple but can be difficult since you only have 5 guesses. (6 guesses made it too easy.)