Re: [Freedos-user] Command line

2021-03-04 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 10:05 AM Jose Senna wrote: > > Did anyone else look at this ? > https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00263-0 > Command line is still (much) alive. > > Interesting article, thanks for sharing. This article is geared for Unix (Linux or Mac) but the concepts apply

Re: [Freedos-user] Command line

2021-03-04 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:05 AM Jose Senna wrote: > > Did anyone else look at this ? > https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00263-0 > Command line is still (much) alive. Those who think it isn't need to get out more. I had a Unix system at home before I got an XT clone running MSDOS.

Re: [Freedos-user] Command line

2021-03-04 Thread Eric Auer
> Did anyone else look at this ? > https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00263-0 > Command line is still (much) alive. "Five reasons why researchers should learn to love the command line The text interface is intimidating, but can save researchers from mundane computing tasks. Just be

[Freedos-user] Command line

2021-03-04 Thread Jose Senna
Did anyone else look at this ? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00263-0 Command line is still (much) alive. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Command Line Parsing

2014-05-16 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Jack Jackson wrote: I've noticed a difference in command line parsing between FreeDOS and PC-DOS. Both FreeDOS and PC-DOS put the command line, starting with the character after the executable, in a buffer at offset 0x80 in the PSP. The behavior difference I see with FreeDOS is if the

[Freedos-user] Command Line Parsing

2014-05-15 Thread Jack Jackson
I've noticed a difference in command line parsing between FreeDOS and PC-DOS. Both FreeDOS and PC-DOS put the command line, starting with the character after the executable, in a buffer at offset 0x80 in the PSP. The behavior difference I see with FreeDOS is if the first non-blank character

Re: [Freedos-user] Command Line Parsing

2014-05-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Jack Jackson j...@pebbleridge.com wrote: I've noticed a difference in command line parsing between FreeDOS and PC-DOS. The behavior difference I see with FreeDOS is if the first non-blank character after the executable is a left parenthesis, then FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-23 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com wrote: If copying raw sector information is all you're after, then you can use rawrite, I used it many times to write out boot disks for booting linux file systems. I don't know of a dd version for dos (thought I'd used one,

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Is there a command line tool to read a sector from harddisk, store it somewhere and write it back later? While not user-friendly at all, you can use DEBUG for this as long as the sector is inside a FAT formatted partition. Old DEBUG versions do not support FAT32. If the sector is the

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric schrieb: Alternatively, you could search for a dos port of dd dd for DOS sounds interesting. Was there ever a DOS port? There is dd for Windows, does someone got it to run under HX DOS Extender? -- SF.Net email is

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Of course there are DOS versions of DD, as for many GNU tools, for example on www.delorie.com - however, there is a misunderstanding: DD alone does not help you editing disks. The trick is that the Linux kernel lets you access disk devices (for whole disks and for partitions) as if they were

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-11 Thread Travis Siegel
If copying raw sector information is all you're after, then you can use rawrite, I used it many times to write out boot disks for booting linux file systems. I don't know of a dd version for dos (thought I'd used one, but it wasn't dd), though it shouldn't be difficult to make one. Don't