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FreeDOS Command Interpreter
This package is part of the FreeDOS project. Email James Hall
(freedos@sunsite.unc.edu) for more information, or check out the archive
at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/pc-stuff/something.or.other (I forget where
it is exactly.)
This is version 0.10. It's currently very alpha, but it does have some
nifty little features.
Send bug reports and other info to me, Tim Norman, normat@rpi.edu.
Installation
------------
This command interpreter is not really ready to be run as a shell, but
it will work a little. To make it your shell, add the following line to
your CONFIG.SYS:
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.EXE
or whatever/whereever your executable is.
Current supported features
--------------------------
SET command (with really spiffy environment handling)
complete PROMPT handling
EXIT command (shell is exitable by default right now. This will be set by
an environment variable later.)
CD command (very simple directory changing. Needs a little work.)
DOSKEY command (merely prints a message saying it is not implemented)
REM command (does nothing... That was an easy one!)
TAB filename completion
command-line history
drive changing
PROMPT command
DIR command (only if DIR executable not in path)
Soon to be supported (i.e. I've written them, but haven't gotten to add them
in yet):
ALIAS command
See the files BUGS and TODO for more info.
Known bugs in COMMAND.EXE
It has some problems spawning other programs. (It doesn't work.) Works
most of the time, but some programs really die hard... Dunno why.
It does not pass the environment correctly to other programs (when it just
happens to call the program at all) when there are no variables set.
CD won't work with no arguments.
path searching is messed up. Doesn't use current path, but uses path that
was passed to it...
When switching to a drive with no disk in it, it doesn't notice :-)
Command-line editing is REALLY slow, since it redraws each time. This
will be fixed soon.
Interesting features:
---------------------
It skips a line or three between each command prompt.
CD works with a terminating \ on a path. This probably won't be a problem,
but it is incosistent with MS-DOS. It's nice to have since the TAB
completion adds the \ if you're completing a directory.