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links.exe (Developers)

posted by Doug , 30.10.2013, 04:57

Ron - Hey! Thanks for the encouragement... but "/" doesn't even work from the command line! So it's not just my shell program.

I'm using MS-DOS 7.1 (from Win98SE) and 4DOS 8.0. I'm testing with Links 2.8 -- both David's and iw2evk's versions behave the same. (And just of note: iw2evk's binary is about half the size of David's.)

Maybe you have some environment variable set or did something else to the system? A possibility: I have 3 partitions on my hd: FAT32 for Win98SE (primary), FAT16 for DOS, and FAT32 for data (i'm testing in real DOS). I did this so that each time i have to re-install Win (and it has to be done periodically!), i don't lose everything else. My LINKS.EXE is in D:\LINKS\ -- so i wonder if perhaps that's part of the problem... maybe Links doesn't understand multiple drives? Maybe has hard-coded paths? (I haven't looked at the source.) Maybe likes to be on C:?

Anyway, when i get a chance, i'm still gonna look into patching the slashes....

But now i'm curious: What is everybody else's experience when trying to load a local HTM file with Links using standard DOS syntax? Will it accept both forward and back slashes as path designators? Accept relative paths?

- Doug B.

Complete thread:

• links.exe - david, 17.10.2013, 16:58 (Developers)
  • links.exe - ron, 18.10.2013, 01:51
    • links.exe - iw2evk, 18.10.2013, 08:22
    • links.exe - marcov, 20.10.2013, 21:18
  • links.exe - david, 24.10.2013, 11:55
    • links.exe - andrea936, 24.10.2013, 23:22
      • links.exe - david, 25.10.2013, 08:45
        • links.exe - ron, 25.10.2013, 09:25
          • links.exe - david, 25.10.2013, 14:01
        • links.exe - iw2evk, 25.10.2013, 20:46
    • links.exe - ron, 25.10.2013, 00:42
      • links.exe - Doug, 25.10.2013, 08:28
        • links.exe - david, 25.10.2013, 08:42
        • links.exe - ron, 25.10.2013, 09:06
          • links.exe - ron, 25.10.2013, 22:26
            • links.exe - iw2evk, 26.10.2013, 13:42
              • links.exe - ron, 27.10.2013, 01:11
          • links.exe - Doug, 28.10.2013, 23:45
            • links.exe - ron, 30.10.2013, 01:49
              • links.exe - Doug, 30.10.2013, 04:57
                • links.exe - ron, 30.10.2013, 06:57
  • links.exe - david, 23.11.2013, 12:38