Hi Skyler!
> ... it doesn't open all CDs. Sometimes I put one in, and I have
> to reboot the computer a couple times to get it to read the disc
There should be less invasive ways to do this - restarting SHSUCDX
maybe? Check the rugxulo.googlepages.com distro (generally more up
to date than FreeDOS 1.0) or check the SHSUCDX homepage - updating
the SHSUCDX driver might help. You can also update the lowlevel
CD/DVD driver. XCDROM, UIDE and "whichever driver you used in old
MS DOS or Win9x DOS" are candidates you should try :-).
> other times it just plain won't read it
Shsucdx only supports ISO9660 CD/DVD, not UDF formatted ones, maybe
that causes your problem?
> Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong, and
> how to fix it? Or is this a known bug?
Does not feel like a known bug, but as said, try updating drivers.
> Speaking of bugs, after being on for a while, when I try to run Edit or
> "ls", for example--pretty much anything that's not a built-in command--it
> does nothing, just dumps me back to the shell. I think it's probably a
> memory issue, but is there any way to fix this?
That IS a known bug in FreeCOM command.com 0.84 (older versions seem
to be okay, but only 0.84 supports long file names). The big problem
with this bug is that we need a definition of "on for a while". Maybe
you can find out what exactly triggers the bug? Because somebody with
a debugger has to be able to look at exactly the moment when FreeCOM
stops running non-built-in commands and see what broke at that moment.
Several people have reported the problem, but we still need at least
something like "if you keep doing X then command.com will start to
misbehave after a few attempts". That would already be a lot better
for bug-hunting than "sometimes it breaks". If you can come up with
such a method, it would be very helpful :-). Actually command.com
misbehaves for me, too, but I have not managed to have a debugger
active at the right moment yet...
Thanks for your feedback :-)
Eric
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