Re: [Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-18 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hi all, > > I think this problem goes beyond "path separators". As I understand it, > any argument including a slash character will get exploded. So yes, this > might be used as path separator, but not only. For eg. sed expects slash > delimited value

Re: [Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-18 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi all, I think this problem goes beyond "path separators". As I understand it, any argument including a slash character will get exploded. So yes, this might be used as path separator, but not only. For eg. sed expects slash delimited values inside a single argument. @Juan - you also write ab

Re: [Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-18 Thread Ralf Quint
On 7/18/2014 3:09 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote: > This is not really disappointing. I was only testing for the > possibility to recommend the FreeDOS 1.1 distribution as an > alternative to WinXP and/or Win98SE to build DJGPP ports but this > seems not really be possible due to different issue

Re: [Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-18 Thread Juan Manuel Guerrero
Am 18.07.2014 22:30, schrieb Rugxulo: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero > wrote: >> I do not know if this is the right place to report this FreCom issue > Dunno, not sure it's actively maintained by anyone anymore. I feared this. >> I do not know if this issue is alr

Re: [Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote: > > I do not know if this is the right place to report this FreCom issue Dunno, not sure it's actively maintained by anyone anymore. http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=command http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/svn/HEAD/tree/free

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started)

2014-07-18 Thread Louis Santillan
Or thinking of Andrew Wu's/DM&P's cross compiler script [1]? It would let you build on Windows for DOS/djgpp. [1] https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Rugxulo wrote: > > > Hi, Jim, > > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014

[Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-18 Thread Juan Manuel Guerrero
I do not know if this is the right place to report this FreCom issue and I do not know if this issue is already well known but I would like to report it anyway. Please inspect the following batch file: @echo off @echo %0 :loop @echo %1 shift if not "%1" == "" goto loop @echo finished with argument

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started)

2014-07-18 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, Jim, > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Jim Michaels wrote: >> >> a windows version of DJGPP is in the wings, based on cygwin I think. there's >> an alpha you can compile with cygwin. > > This is so wrong that I don't even know where to begin. > > DJG

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started)

2014-07-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Jim, On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Jim Michaels wrote: > > a windows version of DJGPP is in the wings, based on cygwin I think. there's > an alpha you can compile with cygwin. This is so wrong that I don't even know where to begin. DJGPP only runs on DOS (or similar like NTVDM or DOSEM

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started)

2014-07-18 Thread Jim Michaels
a windows version of DJGPP is in the wings, based on cygwin I think. there's an alpha you can compile with cygwin. - Original Message - > From: Rugxulo > To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > > Cc: > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 9:18 PM > Subject: Re: [Freedo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Roadmap: (Was Getting started

2014-07-18 Thread Jim Michaels
I would like to add a book to that list: PC Intern system programming by tisher, ,abacus books, it's an encyclopedia pf dos programming know-how and it looks wonderful. - Original Message - > From: Michael B. Brutman > To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver

2014-07-18 Thread Jim Michaels
I don't know if you knew this, but you can telnet to the printer ip and port, HP is 9100. then send it data, and disconnect. I now have code that can be integrated with mtcp I think. I have not compiled it yet. https://www.dropbox.com/s/mjh2qxdsw23ld55/netprint.cpp - Original Message

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver

2014-07-18 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 7/18/2014 4:10 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Actually, that's exactly what jd.exe does from the wattcp/pprd package, > too. "Send job to printer or spooler using direct protocol." > > http://archives.scovetta.com/pub/simtelnet/msdos/lan/pprd200.zip > > Source code is included. > > The nice thin

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver

2014-07-18 Thread Mateusz Viste
Actually, that's exactly what jd.exe does from the wattcp/pprd package, too. "Send job to printer or spooler using direct protocol." http://archives.scovetta.com/pub/simtelnet/msdos/lan/pprd200.zip Source code is included. The nice thing is that it uses printer configuration from wattcp.cfg,