[Freedos-user] Problem after updating to FreeDOS 1.1 with writing of environment variables.

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Gillespie
We have been using FreeDOS on a project for many years, it's an old release, but it did the trick as they say. However we have been forced to update due to some other weirdness, and as a result, it's broken a particular bit of functionality that our batch scripts rely on. I hoping there is an

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem after updating to FreeDOS 1.1 with writing of environment variables.

2012-03-07 Thread C. Masloch
Now the problem was when we wrote this, that there was no way to store any data to pass it back to the calling batch file. We had a clumsy turbodisk memory partition (there is no writable storage on our system when running under FreeDOS), so we write a batch file in that partition with

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem after updating to FreeDOS 1.1 with writing of environment variables.

2012-03-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Mark Gillespie mark.gilles...@gmail.com wrote: What we have, is a FreeDOS bootCD for ghost imaging hardware, and we have a DOS application (written in Watcom) that prompts the user for some information.  Now the problem was when we wrote this, that there