Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:59:51 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Kbwms AT aol DOT com cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: LBInstDJ In-Reply-To: <6f47ea06.244765f9@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 Kbwms AT aol DOT com wrote: > Please explain: > > 1) nc > 2) etc nc = Norton Commander. etc = other known programs which people use to invoke from their AUTOEXEC.BAT. For example, vc, mc, bash. > > Another approach would be to build a COMMAND.COM simulator. Shouldn't > > be too hard. > > I wouldn't bet the farm on that last statement, if I were you. Well, I'm encouraged by experience: part of this is already done inside the DJGPP implementation of `system' library function. COMMAND.COM is quite dumb, and we don't need to emulate all it does, only what's necessary in this context. > > You still will need to detect and bypass all calls to > > batch files and external programs, though. > > And heaven only knows what other dangers lurk out there. Did I say that writing a good installer is a serious task? ;-)