DOS ain't dead

New UIDE Available (May 15) (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 18.05.2009, 08:40

> Note that someone should test to see if various file managers recognize it
> or not (DNOSP, DC-SK, NDN, DOSZip) since that's yet another reason why I
> stick to TDSK 2.3 on my P166 (although it's buggy for > 32 MB or so I
> hear).

Reported to be detected in DOSZip okay. (I should test more myself, but I'm busy with other miscella, as usual.)

I didn't exhaustively test it, but it worked okay on a DOS bootdisk (benchmarking a certain routine I compiled with various GCCs on various setups).

> But you can use Eric's
> FINDDISK
> to search for a volume (e.g. RAM disk) with a known label if it doesn't let
> you select what drive letter to use.

In other words, if you rely on your RAM disk being a certain drive for your .BATs, you can always just do "finddisk + HalleLU-Jah" and it will cd to the newly-created RDISK drive. Then, with FreeCOM or 4DOS at least, you can "set RDISK=%_CWD%", and now you can use %RDISK% in place of your hardcoded RAM drive letter. (Besides, finddisk is only 511 bytes, not exactly huge!)

Complete thread:

• New UIDE Available - rr, 28.04.2009, 09:56 (Announce)
  • New UIDE Available - Rugxulo, 28.04.2009, 22:43
    • New UIDE Available - sol, 29.04.2009, 00:37
  • New UIDE Available - rr, 29.04.2009, 22:40
    • New UIDE Available - Ninho, 01.05.2009, 13:09
      • New UIDE Available - Khusraw, 01.05.2009, 15:04
        • New UIDE Available - Ninho, 02.05.2009, 11:06
          • New UIDE Available - Khusraw, 02.05.2009, 14:36
            • New UIDE Available - Ninho, 02.05.2009, 23:23
            • New UIDE Available - rr, 04.05.2009, 22:52
            • New UIDE Available - Ninho, 05.05.2009, 10:52
              • New UIDE Available (May 6) - Rugxulo, 10.05.2009, 03:29
                • New UIDE Available (May 15) - Rugxulo, 17.05.2009, 01:10
                  • New UIDE (May 15) - Does this work for anyone at all ??? - DOS386, 17.05.2009, 05:26
                    • New UIDE (May 15) - Does this work for anyone at all ??? - sol, 17.05.2009, 20:03
                    • New UIDE (May 15) - Rugxulo, 17.05.2009, 22:58
                      • New UIDE4W98SSE (May 15) R.P. - DOS386, 18.05.2009, 06:16
                        • New UIDE4W98SSE (May 15) R.P. - Rugxulo, 18.05.2009, 08:34
                  • New UIDE Available (May 15) - Zyzzle, 18.05.2009, 03:58
                    • New UIDE Available (May 15) - rr, 19.05.2009, 13:49
                      • New UIDE Available (May 15) - Zyzzle, 20.05.2009, 00:07
                  • New UIDE Available (May 15) - Rugxulo, 18.05.2009, 08:40
                  • RDISK test - small bugfix. - Japheth, 19.05.2009, 12:22
                    • RDISK test - small bugfix. - rr, 19.05.2009, 16:30
                  • New UIDE Available (May 27) - Rugxulo, 28.05.2009, 22:13
                    • New UIDE Available (June 1) - Rugxulo, 03.06.2009, 16:13
                      • New UIDE Available (June 9) - Rugxulo, 11.06.2009, 04:03
                        • New UIDE Available (June 23) - Rugxulo, 24.06.2009, 22:54
                          • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Paul, 16.07.2009, 23:18
                            • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Rugxulo, 17.07.2009, 08:50
                              • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - roytam, 17.07.2009, 13:12
                                • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Paul, 18.07.2009, 21:48
                                  • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - roytam, 19.07.2009, 03:55
                                    • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Paul, 19.07.2009, 18:44
                                      • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - roytam, 20.07.2009, 12:23
                                        • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Paul, 21.07.2009, 23:38
                              • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Paul, 18.07.2009, 21:48