Re: [Freedos-user] External Commands?

[curtis . collins]

Thanks



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From: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org>
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] External Commands?

>> I installed full FreeDos to USB and it boots and works fine. Only
>> problem is there are none of the usual external commands like
>> "chkdsk". There are descriptions of various packages on the project
>> web site, but no correlating images to download. How do I get all the
>> usual external commands?

> if external commands are not found, then you
> probably have to set PATH to point to those
> directories where your external command exe
> and com files are installed. As temporary
> workaround, you can simply go to that drive
> and directory - the current directory always
> is implicit part of the path in DOS.

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:48 AM,  <curtis.coll...@nauticalventures.biz> wrote:
> Thhanks. Will take a look at what dirs I have and path settings.

Note that FreeDOS 1.2 installs by default in C:\FDOS, so your PATH
should probably look like:

PATH=C:\FDOS\BIN

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Re: [Freedos-user] External Commands?

[Jim Hall]

>> I installed full FreeDos to USB and it boots and works fine. Only
>> problem is there are none of the usual external commands like
>> "chkdsk". There are descriptions of various packages on the project
>> web site, but no correlating images to download. How do I get all the
>> usual external commands?

> if external commands are not found, then you
> probably have to set PATH to point to those
> directories where your external command exe
> and com files are installed. As temporary
> workaround, you can simply go to that drive
> and directory - the current directory always
> is implicit part of the path in DOS.

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:48 AM,   wrote:
> Thhanks. Will take a look at what dirs I have and path settings.

Note that FreeDOS 1.2 installs by default in C:\FDOS, so your PATH
should probably look like:

PATH=C:\FDOS\BIN

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Re: [Freedos-user] External Commands?

[curtis . collins]

Thhanks. Will take a look at what dirs I have and path settings.

Regards, Curtis 

-Original Message-
From: Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>
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Sent: lun., 08 ene. 2018 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] External Commands?


Hi Curtis,

if external commands are not found, then you
probably have to set PATH to point to those
directories where your external command exe
and com files are installed. As temporary
workaround, you can simply go to that drive
and directory - the current directory always
is implicit part of the path in DOS.

As you say you installed "full" FreeDOS, which
is a lot more than "base", you should have a
large number of available commands. Even "base"
already has so many basic tools that MS DOS
would have called that a "full" install.

Regards, Eric

> I installed full FreeDos to USB and it boots and works fine. Only
> problem is there are none of the usual external commands like
> "chkdsk". There are descriptions of various packages on the project
> web site, but no correlating images to download. How do I get all the
> usual external commands?

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Re: [Freedos-user] External Commands?

[Eric Auer]

Hi Curtis,

if external commands are not found, then you
probably have to set PATH to point to those
directories where your external command exe
and com files are installed. As temporary
workaround, you can simply go to that drive
and directory - the current directory always
is implicit part of the path in DOS.

As you say you installed "full" FreeDOS, which
is a lot more than "base", you should have a
large number of available commands. Even "base"
already has so many basic tools that MS DOS
would have called that a "full" install.

Regards, Eric

> I installed full FreeDos to USB and it boots and works fine. Only
> problem is there are none of the usual external commands like
> "chkdsk". There are descriptions of various packages on the project
> web site, but no correlating images to download. How do I get all the
> usual external commands?

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Re: [Freedos-user] External Commands?

[dmccunney]

On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Curtis Collins
 wrote:
> I installed full FreeDos to USB and it boots and works fine. Only problem is
> there are none of the usual external commands like "chkdsk". There are
> descriptions of various packages on the project web site, but no correlating
> images to download.
>
> How do I get all the usual external commands?

When you say "I installed full FreeDos to USB", what do you mean?  A
full installation should get you the external commands as well as the
DOS kernel and the command processor.

If you issue a SET command, what do you get?  SET, issued by itself,
with list currently defined environment variables.

DOS is like every other OS.  It looks for programs in the directory
you are in at the moment*, and in other directories defined in the
%PATH% variable. When you boot DOS, you'll be looking at the root
directory of the drive where you installed it.

If the programs aren't in those places, they won't be seen, and you'll
get a command not found error.  I suspect the sub-directory where the
external commands live is not in the DOS %PATH%, so the OS won't see
and run them. You'll need to edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file to add the
directories where the external commands live to the PATH.

* Well, DOS and Windows do that.  Unix, Linux, and OS/X *only* look in
directories defined in the PATH.  They don't look in the current
directory unless you explicitly specify it by ./ on the
command line, or if  "." is added to the PATH.

> Curtis
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[Freedos-user] External Commands?

[Curtis Collins]

I installed full FreeDos to USB and it boots and works fine. Only problem is 
there are none of the usual external commands like "chkdsk". There are 
descriptions of various packages on the project web site, but no correlating 
images to downaload.

How do I get all the usual external commands?



⁣Thanks,

Curtis


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