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NOKEYB Release 1 (Announce)

posted by rr  , Berlin, Germany, 17.03.2021, 22:37

> > The DOS 6.0 COMMAND.COM option /K= sets the name of the AUTOEXEC.BAT
> > file. COMMAND.COM /K=mybat.bat is a handy way to set up a DOS session
> from
> > Windows.
>
> I tried "/C" instead with DOS 5 COMMAND.COM and the Organizer is stuck in a
> boot loop now. I have to restart from scratch.

Today I took COMMAND.COM from a German MS-DOS 6.22 and patched out the DOS version check first. Then I added "SHELL=E:\COMMAND.COM E:\ /P /K E:\AUTOEXEC.BAT" to E:\CONFIG.SYS. That worked fine and gives me 2K less available memory than with my NOKEYB solution. Of course, you need to have a valid MS-DOS 6.22 license...

So I tried FreeDOS FreeCOM COMMANDW.COM from com084b7-xmsswap.zip. Works with "SHELL=E:\COMMAND.COM E:\ /E:512 /P=E:\AUTOEXEC.BAT" in E:\CONFIG.SYS, but leaves me with ~65K less available memory.

Without "/E:512" AUTOEXEC.BAT failed to set PROMPT (just the standard '$P$G') or PATH environment vars, because of insufficient space in environment. Wtf...

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Complete thread:

• NOKEYB Release 1 - rr, 14.03.2021, 21:42 (Announce)
  • NOKEYB Release 1 - RayeR, 15.03.2021, 23:05
    • NOKEYB Release 1 - rr, 16.03.2021, 22:41
      • NOKEYB Release 1 - rr, 17.03.2021, 22:37
        • NOKEYB Release 1 - RayeR, 19.03.2021, 04:49
  • NOKEYB Release 2 - rr, 30.05.2021, 22:55
  • NOKEYB Release 3 - rr, 17.06.2021, 23:23
    • NOKEYB Release 3 - rr, 18.06.2021, 18:44
      • NOKEYB Release 3 - rr, 18.06.2021, 23:29