ReactOS Command Line Interface "CMD" version 0.1 pre 2
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This is the fourth pre-alpha release of CMD.EXE for ReactOS.
It was converted from the FreeDOS COMMAND.COM.


Warning!! Warning!! Warning!!
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This is an alpha version! Many features have not been tested!
Be careful when you use commands that write to your disk drives,
they might destroy your files or the file system!!!


Status
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This is a converted version of FreeDOS COMMAND.COM.
I added some commands from WinNT's CMD.EXE.


New features and improvements
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  - Fixed redirection and piping.
    (E.g. you can use "type > file" now.)
  - Added new error redirections "2>" and "2>>".
    (E.g.: "make 2>error.log")
  - Added CHCP command.
  - Fixed environment handling.
  - New makefile for lcc-win (makefile.lcc).
  - Rewrote DEL and MOVE with a new structure.
  - Improved national language support.
  - Fixed filename completion.


Compiling
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I converted CMD using MS Visual C++ 5.0 and Win95. The included makefile
is just an experimental version.

If you want to compile and test CMD with djgpp, modify the makefile as needed.
I put the CMD sources into [reactos\apps], the makefile is written for that
directory.

If you want to compile and test CMD using another compiler, just create
a new console application project and add all *.c and *.h files to it.
It should compile without an error.


Please report bugs which are not listed above.


Good luck

  Eric Kohl <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de>




FreeDOS Command Line Interface
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About
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This software is part of the FreeDOS project. Please email
freedos@sunsite.unc.edu for more information, or visit the freedos
archive at "ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos".  Also,
visit our web page at http://www.freedos.org/.

The command.com web site is at

   http://www.gcfl.net/FreeDOS/command.com/


This software has been developed by the following people:
(listed in approximate chronological order of contributions)

FreeDOS developers:
   normat@rpi.edu (Tim Norman)
   mrains@apanix.apana.org.au (Matt Rains)
   ejeffrey@iastate.edu (Evan Jeffrey)
   Steffen.Kaiser@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Steffen Kaiser)
   Svante Frey (sfrey@kuai.se)
   Oliver Mueller (ogmueller@t-online.de)
   Aaron Kaufman (morgan@remarque.berkeley.edu)
   Marc Desrochers (bitzero@hotmail.com)
   Rob Lake (rlake@cs.mun.ca)
   John P. Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>
   Hans B Pufal <hansp@digiweb.com>

ReactOS developers:
   Eric Kohl <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de>


Current Features
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 - environment handling with prompt and path support.
 - directory utilities.
 - command-line history with doskey-like features.
 - batch file processing.
 - input/output redirection and piping.
 - alias support.
 - filename completion (use TAB)
