Re: [Freedos-devel] DJGPP package versions in FreeDOS 1.2RC2

2016-11-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Andris Pavenis wrote: > > Is there any good reason why RC2 contains ancient versions of DJGPP packages? No good reason (AFAIK), just lack of time from myself and others. --

Re: [Freedos-devel] odd FreeDOS batch %1 %2 %3 behavior (differs from MS-DOS, too)

2016-11-29 Thread Eric Auer
To add my 2 cents regarding link files... For stuff like DJGPP which has many tools, it is probably a good idea to make a SEPARATE directory for installing DJGPP and add that to the PATH :-) As NASM only includes a few files, it can indeed be in the generic FreeDOS bin directory anyway. Cheers, E

Re: [Freedos-devel] odd FreeDOS batch %1 %2 %3 behavior (differs from MS-DOS, too)

2016-11-29 Thread Tom Ehlert
> Thank you for sharing your insight. It clearly looks like I will have to > figure out an alternative approach to my batch files. > Context: Such batch files are created by FDNPKG, my FreeDOS package > manager, as "links" to some commonly used applications like zip, upx, > nasm, etc, to avoid h

Re: [Freedos-devel] odd FreeDOS batch %1 %2 %3 behavior (differs from MS-DOS, too)

2016-11-29 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi Bret, Thank you for sharing your insight. It clearly looks like I will have to figure out an alternative approach to my batch files. Context: Such batch files are created by FDNPKG, my FreeDOS package manager, as "links" to some commonly used applications like zip, upx, nasm, etc, to avoid

Re: [Freedos-devel] odd FreeDOS batch %1 %2 %3 behavior (differs from MS-DOS, too)

2016-11-29 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:58:14 -0600, Rugxulo wrote: > Maybe put double quotes " " around args when invoking the .BAT? This doesn't change anything regarding how the equal characters are processed. Worse even, the callee ends up being called with too many arguments each time, since each "" argumen