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Jim Hall | 6 Aug 18:36
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(FWD) Suggestion for FreeDOS debugging

Bryan emailed me a few weeks back to say that he was working with 
FreeDOS on a side-project at his work, and he hoped to send some FreeDOS 
improvements/suggestions related to that.  He's moved to a new area, so 
he won't be able to continue his FreeDOS work.

However, he did send in this interesting .bat trick that he has used 
successfully in the past ... maybe others will find it interesting and 
useful.  Also, Bryan makes a request for a new feature when parsing a 
.bat file.

I thought the FreeCOM list was the most appropriate place to fwd Bryan's 
email:

Bryan Nahrwold wrote:
> Jim:
>  
> I have recently moved to a group that uses imaging and focuses on 
> Windows and Linux, so I will have less occasion to use FreeDos.  
> However, I am still interested in your project.  I feel that there is a 
> long life for DOS as an Automation tool.
>  
> I have one suggestion that I think would greatly improve FreeDOS's debug 
> capabilities.  Of course, I am aware of the command /y /c filename 
> option, but this can be tedious to traverse.
>  
> In my batch files, I use the following construct
>  
> At the top of each batch file:
>  
>> SET TEMP_BAT=CURR_BAT
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FreeCOM | 19 Aug 23:33
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[ANN] Another TESTING release of FreeCOM

Hello,

unfortunately, I have to inform you that I have put together another 
testing release of FreeCOM, instead of the next patch level release.

The reasons are numerous, extending that I'm offline the next two weeks 
and that there should be another release soon.

In
http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freecom/packages/TESTING/

you'll find:
com082pl3ak/ -- TESTING release
tst-crit/    -- Critical Error handling test release
tstsuppl.zip -- built test release

a) tst-crit

implements a feature to autofail Critical Errors, but the first per 
drive. It should make DIR and %PATH% searches a lot less noisy.
Please test, and offer your opinion. I will offer the design descissions 
later on. (Why so and not Eric's for instance.)

b) tstsuppl.zip

Because of complains about the tricky SUPPL stuff, I put together this 
package. This would be downloaded from CVS. What do you think about it?
(Hint: DOCS\COMPILE.TXT is updated)

c) com082pl3ak/
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