[Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Miguel Garza
I've got my programs in subdirectories of C:\APPS, and whenever I add a new program, I have to add its path to autoexec.bat like so: set PATH=.;c:\;\LOCALE;\APPS;[all the other paths to the other programs in the APPS folder];\APPS\NEWPROG But now FDOS is telling me my PATH is too long and PATH

Re: [Freedos-user] Vim is slow

2013-11-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Miguel Garza schreef op 3-11-2013 16:21: I'm playing with vim in FDOS. It's nice, but a bit slow in some respects, particulary when using its internal file-browser. I am running FDOS from a thumbdrive on a modern (well, only a few years old) computer. I added DEVICE=...himemx.exe to my

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Miguel Garza schreef op 3-11-2013 16:38: But now FDOS is telling me my PATH is too long and PATH isn't working. So I took some of the paths off the end that I just added, and now PATH is parsed. But is there any way I can have more paths in my PATH? Perhaps MSDOS or 4DOS allowed longer paths,

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:57:50 +0100, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: An alternative solution would be to write an individual batchfile for each program you'd like to run, and place these batchfiles somewhere in C:\DOS or so. @echo off C: CD \ CD PROGRAMS CD APPS CD MYPROG MYPROG.EXE

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Miguel Garza
Thanks to you both! On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.siwrote: On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:57:50 +0100, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: An alternative solution would be to write an individual batchfile for each program you'd like to run, and place these

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Chris Evans
Or try runme.bat path program.exe Echo off Cd %1 %2 :exit On Sunday, November 3, 2013, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Miguel Garza schreef op 3-11-2013 16:38: But now FDOS is telling me my PATH is too long and PATH isn't working. So I took some of the paths off the end that I just added, and now

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Miguel Garza garz...@gmail.com wrote: I've got my programs in subdirectories of C:\APPS, and whenever I add a new program, I have to add its path to autoexec.bat like so: set PATH=.;c:\;\LOCALE;\APPS;[all the other paths to the other programs in the APPS

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK, the %PATH% can (normally) only be 128 bytes or less. This is also part of the overall environment limit (but what is default for FreeCOM, /E:256 ??). There are possible partial workarounds that extend it to 255

Re: [Freedos-user] Vim is slow

2013-11-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Miguel Garza schreef op 3-11-2013 16:21: I'm playing with vim in FDOS. It's nice, but a bit slow in some respects, particulary when using its internal file-browser. I am running FDOS from a thumbdrive on a modern (well,

Re: [Freedos-user] Vim is slow

2013-11-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Miguel Garza garz...@gmail.com wrote: I'm playing with vim in FDOS. It's nice, but a bit slow in some respects, particulary when using its internal file-browser. What internal file-browser? LIST? PG? MORE? EDIT? I have no idea, you have to be more

[Freedos-user] first use of freedos

2013-11-03 Thread John R. Sowden
got a 'distribution disk' of freedos, ran the sys command. copied it from the net to a floppy using ubuntu 13.10, put it in a 486 24MB windows 98 computer with the windows programs removed and the MSDOS 7.10 and 4dos in place, with a network. A few issues: Freedos did not like 'sys'ing to

Re: [Freedos-user] first use of freedos

2013-11-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:13 AM, John R. Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net wrote: got a 'distribution disk' of freedos Where? Which version? What files? , ran the sys command. To / from what? Floppy? Hard drive? copied it from the net to a floppy using ubuntu 13.10 Assuming the floppy