[Freedos-user] Unicode and codepages in apps already bundled with FreeDOS?

2023-06-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, as part of a mail with Vacek, I made a list of apps from https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/report.html which MIGHT have some sort of Unicode and codepage awareness: By that, I mean that those apps can process input and/or output which are

[Freedos-user] EtherDFS ver 0.8.3

2023-06-22 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hello, I've published a new version of EtherDFS today: version 0.8.3. This version fixes a bug kindly reported by Jerome Shidel. https://etherdfs.sourceforge.net SvarDOS users can update it as follows: pkgnet pull etherdfs pkg update etherdfs.svp Others will have to fetch the new zip file

Re: [Freedos-user] Confusing details about SET and redirection inFreeC OM

2023-06-22 Thread Bret Johnson
> Maybe put in quotes? In some circumstances you can put things in double-quotes at a DOS command-line to enclose "special" characters, but that doesn't always work and different versions of DOS do things differently. Probably the simplest example of this is enclosing a long-file-name (at

Re: [Freedos-user] Confusing details about SET and redirection inFreeCOM

2023-06-22 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
Maybe put in quotes? On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 10:07 AM, Bret Johnson wrote: >> Hi fellow users :-) >> >> I have been wondering which chars are special in SET >> in FreeCOM and whether they can be escaped or similar. > > I don't know specifically about FreeCOM, but I know in some versions of >

Re: [Freedos-user] Confusing details about SET and redirection in Free COM

2023-06-22 Thread Bret Johnson
> Hi fellow users :-) > > I have been wondering which chars are special in SET > in FreeCOM and whether they can be escaped or similar. I don't know specifically about FreeCOM, but I know in some versions of DOS an environment variable can't contain an equals sign. For example, in some DOS