Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-04 Thread Antony Gordon
Hi, set /p is a Windows NT feature of CMD.EXE. It was not available in MS-DOS or Windows 9x. I even double checked on my Win98 VM and my Win ME VM before I wrote this. (Don’t ask why I have those. Just don’t). I get “Syntax Error” in both Windows 98 and Windows ME. It was nice of whomever wr

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-04 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Oct 3, 2015, at 10:41 PM, Antony Gordon wrote: > > Hi, > > What if you implemented V8 tools in a customized version of FreeCOM that > starts the setup process? I sorry, but I think I am failing to understand what you are trying to achieve. The standard FreeCom (COMMAND.COM) that ships w

Re: [Freedos-devel] XFTOOLS - exFAT access a la LTOOLS

2015-10-04 Thread Georg Potthast
If you set the device attribute word in the device driver header (bit 13) to flag a non-IBM disk (zero), you can access any disk or tape if the block device driver is written to support that. DOS will just specify the logical sector numbers it needs and does not care if this is stored in FAT for