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