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ReactOS Command Line Interface "CMD" version 0.0.4
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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 a pre-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)