We're working over/tripping over some small
details here, but many people won't know what to do with an error message like
this and will just give up. So a little background and a fresh detail or
two:
Background:
OpenGEM 4 and 5 used this command in
C:\GEM.BAT:
CD\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS\
This worked fine in MS-DOS 6 but the version of
FreeCOM current at the time failed without a space after CD.
OpenGEM 6 attempted to adjust to FreeCOM by using
this command:
CD GEMAPPS\GEMSYS
This executes fine if entered from the command
line at C:\ and will make the current
directory C:\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS. But if you put that command in a batch
file at C:\TEST.BAT and then ChDir to C:\FDOS and rely on PATH or native ability
to find and run TEST.BAT in the root directory, you will generate the error
"CHDIR failed for 'GEMAPPS\GEMSYS.'"
If you edit TEST.BAT to CD \GEMAPPS\GEMSYS (adding
the initial backslash), it will run fine. Contrary to what I said earlier,
you do not need to enter the full drive:\path to get a successful fix. In
fact, with the current version of FreeCOM, you can once again omit the space
after CD.
In short, there is still a small deviation
from behavior under MS-DOS 6. But previously when I entered a
program-startup command from an improper location (like trying to start DESCENT
from FDOS\BIN, to make up an example) FreeDOS would tend to run something like
C:\SETUP (the GEM setup program). So this may be progress.
--John Hupp
- Original Message -
From: Eric Auer
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM - GEM.BAT fails with ChDir under
FreeDOS 1.0
Hi John,> ... the GEM.BAT installed by GEM 6
bundled with FreeDOS> 1.0 fails at CD \GEMAPPS\GEMSYS if you try to start
GEM from outside the> root directory (where GEM.BAT is located) on a pure
FreeDOS machine.> To work around that, do a search-and-replace in GEM.BAT
to change all> instances to CD C:\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS.There are two
oddities in GEM here:1. it assumes that you start gem.bat from the same
drive whereyou have GEM installed and2. gem.bat should be in, for
example, c:\fdos\bin instead of in c:\(which is sth. which the FreeDOS
installer, not GEM, should tweak...)The first issue should be worked
around by usingc:CD \GEMapps\GEMsysinstead of only using the "CD"
line. Because usingCD c:\GEMapps\GEMsys still does not force going to
C:Using CDD c:\GEMapps\GEMsys would, but would be FreeCOM specific,so
the better solution is to use the above two line one.However, FreeCOM
has behaved odd for me recently (since I updatedfrom 1.0 base to 1.0 full) -
sometimes it just stops to run programs!No error message or anything, just
does not run the programs any more.This might depend on whether doslfn is
loaded, not sure. Any
ideas?Eric-Take
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