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FreeDOS Command Line Interface Development History
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11/11/94 version 0.01
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o initial release.
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01/01/95 version 0.10
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o removed some scaffolding.
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o modified CD.
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o added tab file completion.
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o added command line history.
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01/15/95 version 0.20
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o formatted all existing source modules.
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o added prompt support.
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o added drive selection.
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o added dir command.
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o started this development log.
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08/06/95 prerelease of version 0.30
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o reorganized code into separate source modules.
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o added batch processing support (thanks to Evan Jeffrey).
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o added exec code (thanks to Steffan Kaiser).
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o removed environment handling (thanks again to Steffan Kaiser)
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[ 08/08/95 -- Matt Rains ]
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o formatted this development log.
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o formatted all existing source modules so that they comply with recommended
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programming practice.
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o added MD command.
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o added RD command.
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o added VER command.
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o replaced CD command.
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o modified DIR command.
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o DIR now called regardless of other DIR.??? files. this is done because of
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exec() problems.
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12/10/95 version 0.30
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o used Borland's spawnve to fix exec problem
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o fixed CD again so you don't need a space after it
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o couple of spelling fixes
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12/14/95 version 0.31
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o modified cmdinput.c to work with non-standard screen sizes (see 28.com)
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o fixed a bug in history.c that made it not work when you hit the up arrow
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on the first line
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o fixed DIR to work a little more like MS-DOS's DIR (see internal.c)
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o fixed some code in where.c to make things a bit more efficient and nicer
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01/06/96 version 0.40 (never released)
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o added redirection and piping support!!! (see redir.c and command.c)
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o fixed a stupid pointer problem in where.c that was causing LOTS of
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problems in the strangest places...
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o added day of the week support to prompt.c (oops, that was already supposed
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to be there! :)
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o fixed and reorganized the EXEC code!!! Thanks to Svante Frey!
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o reorganized command.c and internal.c to handle parsing internal commands
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more efficiently and consistently.
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o changed the behavior of MD, CD, RD to work without spaces (e.g. CD\DOS)
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o small changes here and there to make it work with redirection/piping
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(e.g. DIR only pauses if you're not doing redirection)
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01/17/96 version 0.50
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Version 0.40 was never released because I was home on Christmas vacation,
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and I couldn't upload it. By the time I got back to school, I had the
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LOADHIGH patch from Svante Frey, so I decided to jump up to 0.50 without any
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release of 0.40... - Tim Norman
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o LOADHIGH/LOADFIX/LH support added!!!! Many thanks go to Svante Frey!
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o bug fixed in command parsing that didn't handle / switches correctly...
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o removed debugging output from history.c
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07/26/96 version 0.60
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Lots of internal changes here... Not much added to the interface.
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o Changed internals to use first,rest parameters instead of arrays of params
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o Fixed some bugs
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o Some other things I don't remember :)
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07/26/96 version 0.61
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Bugfixes
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o Added hook to the PATH command
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o Fixed CD.. bug
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08/27/96 version 0.70
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Finally added Oliver Mueller's ALIAS command! Also numerous bug fixes.
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o Added ALIAS command
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o Removed support for - as a switch in LOADHIGH.C
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o Bugfixes in BATCH.C. %0 was returning garbage
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o Removed lots of unused variables, reducing # of warnings when compiling
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o Other miscellaneous code clean-ups
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o Changed WHERE.C to use a little less memory
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06/14/97 version 0.71
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Lots of bug fixes, plus some additional features.
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o New DIR command. Now more like MS-DOS's DIR. /p supported, /s coming soon
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o bug fix in internal.c - parse_firstarg
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o Rewrote parser in batch.c (Steffan Kaiser)
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o Ctrl-Break checking in various places (Steffan Kaiser)
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o Error level setting/checking (%? in batch files) (Steffan Kaiser)
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o bug fix in cmdinput.c ("%i" on command-line caused weird behavior)
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o bug fix in where.c (first item in path wasn't searched)
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07/12/97 version 0.72
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More bug fixes and code cleanup
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o Rewrote cmdinput.c to be more efficient (Marc Desrochers)
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o Added insert/overstrike modes (Marc Desrochers)
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o Replaced findxy() with pointers into BIOS (maxx, maxy) (Marc Desrochers)
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o Fixed bug that disallowed listing of root directories
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o Fixed bug that didn't search the first path (again!)
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07/13/97 version 0.72b
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Disabled a feature that caused a crash on some machines.
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o Replaced setcursor calls in cmdinput.c with _setcursortype
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o Added dir.c to the distribution (was left out in 0.72)
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07/01/98 version 0.73 (Rob Lake)
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o New DIR commands supported: /S, /B, /L, /A and /W.
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(/R changed to /S). Also /? added.
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o Supports DIRCMD in environment.
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o Supports turning off commands with hyphen (ex. /-S
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turns off recursive listing)
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o Changed error messages for DIR and DEL to more MS-DOS'ish
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o Moved error messages from DIR.C and DEL.C to COMMAND.H
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(more may go there soon)
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o Fixed bug that caused dir *.ext/X not to work (no spaces
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between filespec and slash)
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o Added wildcard support for DEL command
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o Added prompt and help switch for DEL command, /P and /?
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respectively.
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o Added support for /C when invoking the shell
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o Added /P support when Kernel loads shell. This means
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the shell now is permanent and runs the autoexec.bat
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(/E is not implemented)
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o Added my name (Rob Lake) to the developer listing
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o Changed version routine to print out copyright notice
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with no args, and with appropriate switches, warranty
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and redistribution notices and developer listing
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07/08/1998 version 0.74 (John P. Price (linux-guru@gcfl.net))
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COMMAND.C/COMMAND.H:
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o Now sets COMSPEC environment variable
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o misc clean up and optimization
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o added date, time and type commands
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o changed to using spawnl instead of exec. exec does not copy the
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environment to the child process!
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DIR.C
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o removed extra returns; closer to MSDOS
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o fixed wide display so that an extra return is not displayed when
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there is five filenames in the last line.
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ENVIRON.C
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o commented out show_environment function. Not used anymore.
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INTERAL.C
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o removed call to show_environment in set command.
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o moved test for syntax before allocating memory in set command.
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o misc clean up and optimization.
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o created DATE.C
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o created TIME.C
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o created TYPE.C
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07/08/1998 version 0.74b (John P. Price (linux-guru@gcfl.net))
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COMMAND.C
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o fixed call to spawnl so that it would pass command line arguments
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correctly.
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07/12/98 version 0.74c (Rob Lake rlake@cs.mun.ca)
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Various Files:
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o removed redundant use of error message defines and moved
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error printing calls to ERROR.C to reduced program size.
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o created MISC.C
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o created ERR_HAND.C/H
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o created ERROR.C
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07/13/98 version 0.74d (Rob Lake rlake@cs.mun.ca)
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INTERNAL.C
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o removed most of the commands and placed them in there own file
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-- del, ren, set and ver
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o created DEL.C, REN.C SET.C and VER.C
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o fixed bug that caused del not to delete files with no attributes
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o the critical error handler count number of times called, autofails
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at 5 calls
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16 Jul 1998 (Hans B Pufal <hansp@digiweb.com>)
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batch.c
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A new version, implements CALL, ECHO, GOT, IF, PAUSE, SHIFT and
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BEEP. There is a stub for FOR but that's all.
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cmdtable.c
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New file to keep the internal command table. I plan on getting rid
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of the table real soon now and replacing it with a dynamic
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mechanism.
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command.c
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A new (improved ;) version. Conforms closely to MS-DOS specs.
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Cleaned up (and fixed) the redirection handler.
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command.h
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Version D with changes. Look for the HBP tag.
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redir.c
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Modified file, now supports append redirects.
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16 Jul 1998 (Rob Lake rlake@cs.mun.ca)
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Added TRUENAME command.
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19 Jul 1998 (Hans B Pufal) <hansp@digiweb.com>)
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o Preserve state of echo flag across batch calls.
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o Implementation of FOR command
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20 Jul 1998 (John P Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>)
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o Fixed bug in DATE.C.
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o Fixed bug in LH.ASM.
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o Separated commands into individual files.
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28 Jul 1998 (John P Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>)
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o Added CLS command.
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o Put ifdef's around all commands and added include file config.h
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Now you can define exact what commands you want to include in
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command.com.
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o Also added ifdefs for optional features: aliases, command history
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and filename completion.
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o Added display of available internal commands and options at startup.
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29 Jul 1998 (Rob Lake rlake@cs.mun.ca)
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o changed date.c and time.c, and wrote datefunc.c and timefunc.c to
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implement _dos_getdate, _dos_setdate, _dos_gettime and _dos_settime.
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This is the first of many steps to make the shell compatible under
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Pacific C.
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30-Jul-1998 (John P Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>)
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o Changed filename completion so that a second TAB displays a list of
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matching filenames!
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o made filename be lower case if last character typed is lower case.
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o Moved filename completion code to filecomp.c.
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o Change ver command to display email address to report bugs, and the
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web page address for updates.
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o fixed so that it find_which returns NULL if filename is not
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executable (does not have .bat, .com, or .exe extension). Before
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command would to execute any file with any extension. (opps!)
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30-Jul-1998 (John P Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>)
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o Fixed bug where if you typed something, then hit HOME, then tried to
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type something else in insert mode, it locked up.
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o Changed default insert mode to on. There should be a way to change
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this. Maybe options to doskey command.
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o Added VERIFY command
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02-Aug-1998 (Hans B Pufal) <hansp@digiweb.com>)
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o batch.c: Fixed bug in ECHO flag restoration at exit from batch file
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o command.c: Fixed return value when called with /C option
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o Terminate label on first space character, use only first 8 chars of
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label string
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04-Aug-1998 (Hans B Pufal) <hansp@digiweb.com>)
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o call.c: added lines to initialize for pointers. This fixed the
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lock-up that happened sometimes when calling a batch file from
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another batch file.
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07-Aug-1998 (John P Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>)
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o Fixed carriage return output to better match MSDOS with echo on or off.
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07-Dec-1998 ReactOS CMD version 0.0.1 (Eric Kohl)
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o First test release.
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o Added internal ATTRIB command.
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11-Dec-1998 ReactOS CMD version 0.0.2 (Eric Kohl)
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o Fixed bug in ALIAS. CMD crashed when you tried to remove an alias.
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o Fixed bug in split(). Added freep(). This fixed the DEL command.
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o Improved ATTRIB command.
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o Added most help texts.
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o Fixed recursive DIR ("dir /s").
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o Fixed DATE and TIME command. Now they accept values when used
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without parameter.
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o Implemented LABEL command.
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05-Jan-1999 ReactOS CMD version 0.0.3 (Eric Kohl)
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o Added COLOR command and "/t" option.
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o Cursor shows insert/overwrite mode.
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o COMSPEC environment variable is set upon startup.
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o Started COPY command.
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o Started MOVE command.
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o Added directory stack (PUSHD and POPD commands).
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o Added support for file names or paths that contain spaces
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(quoted paths / file names).
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o Added recursion to ATTRIB command.
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o Added locale support for DIR, DATE, TIME and PROMPT.
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o Fixed VERIFY.
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10-Feb-1999 ReactOS CMD version 0.0.4 (Eric Kohl)
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o "?" lists all available commands.
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o Most commands are unicode and redirection aware now.
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o Input-, Output- and Error-Redirections works with most commands.
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o ATTRIB and DEL can handle multiple filenames now.
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o Fixed handling of environment variables.
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o Added CHCP command.
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o Fixed keyboard input bug.
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o Rewrote DEL and MOVE commands.
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28-Dec-1999 ReactOS CMD version 0.1 (Eric Kohl)
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o Cleaned up DIR command.
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o Searching for executables in the right order.
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o Fixed some little but nasty bugs.
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o Added TITLE command. Thanks to Emanuele Aliberti!
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o Added "/Q", "/W" and "/Z" options to DEL command.
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o Added CHOICE, TIMER, FREE and MEMORY commands.
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o Added MSGBOX command (not available under ReactOS).
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o Added and fixed missing help texts.
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o Fixed bugs in MD and RD that crashed cmd when no directory was specified.
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o Improved history support.
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o Improved COLOR command.
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09-Apr-2000 ReactOS CMD version 0.1 (Eric Kohl)
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o Fixed bug in COPY command. CMD crashed if source file didn't exist.
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13-Jul-2000 ReactOS CMD version 0.1.1 (Eric Kohl)
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o Implemented 'ECHO.' and 'ECHOERR.' commands.
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