Re: [Freedos-devel] Initial Environment block

2024-07-26 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
>> > In addition to that, EDR-DOS seems to setup a temporary environment when > processing config.sys. This environment is 253 bytes excluding the > terminating zeros. One may even use the SET= command to set environment > variables in config.sys and INSTALL= to run programs directly from con

Re: [Freedos-devel] Initial Environment block

2024-07-25 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Without testing it, (E)DR-DOS should give it 0h as environment segment, see https://github.com/SvarDOS/edrdos/blob/8a173d3df14576cdfc4fcf501861b55f162c850e/drbio/biosinit.asm#L519-L524 https://github.com/SvarDOS/edrdos/blob/8a173d3df14576cdfc4fcf501861b55f162c850e/drbio/biosinit.asm#L2202

Re: [Freedos-devel] Initial Environment block

2024-07-25 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
I'm working on an article about the environment, and found something which was new to me, namely that DOS (at least MS-DOS and FreeDOS, haven't checked with DR-DOS yet) actually doesn't give the primary shell an environment of h when CONFIG.SYS uses a MENU. This mini environment is used

[Freedos-devel] Initial Environment block

2024-07-25 Thread Wolf Bergenheim via Freedos-devel
Hi, I'm working on an article about the environment, and found something which was new to me, namely that DOS (at least MS-DOS and FreeDOS, haven't checked with DR-DOS yet) actually doesn't give the primary shell an environment of h when CONFIG.SYS uses a MENU. This mini environment is used to