Re: [Freedos-user] Special question about CDROM access in FreeDOS

2006-01-12 Thread Andre Tertling
Hi Erwin, thanks for that suggestion. Despite the fact that I've been a long time reader of batch.ger on FIDONET, this invaluable set of tools escaped my memory. And when I come to think of it, it's even worse: I am using WBAT right now but didn't think of Horst's other tools at all. Maybe I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] Special question about CDROM access in FreeDOS

2006-01-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Andre Tertling schreef: If there is a CDROM present (that means loading of XCDROM and SHSUCDX were successful) but there is no disk in the drive, processing of my batch file stops with an error message and the usual "Abort, Retry, Fail?". If I pick "Fail" here, complete havoc occurs (I didn't h

[Freedos-user] Special question about CDROM access in FreeDOS

2006-01-12 Thread Andre Tertling
Hi there, I am currently writing a small dos tool that boots from a FreeDOS floppy disk. During the initialization phase, I have to check if there is a CDROM inserted with a particular file. But this has proven to be difficult! If there is a CDROM present (that means loading of XCDROM and SHSUC