Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 19:08:13 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] OD case sensitivity
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On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> On 11 Mar 97 (at 19:18) Colin W. Glenn became famous by saying:
> > Right, I'm talking about a patch until this is done.
> So, you mean like a 'proxy' command.com to uppercase the env and load up the 
> original one? This might be quite hard with some advanced features of OD...

How so?  The only potential problem I see is that the stack is undefined
upon entry into the command processor, but seeing as you MUST define it as
the permanent command shell, you never have to worry about exiting to an
unknow machine state.  Them who forget to add the /p switch will need to
be reminded by the little utility about adding it, or have it be added for
them.  The proxy program name would be added in front of the command shell
loading line, ie:

shell=c:\command.com /p /e:800

would become:

shell=c:\proxy c:\command.com /p /e:800

giving proxy the name and location of command.

> > Uh-huh, and not willing to sacrifice the work, loaded debug and wrote the
> > entire memory to disk to pluck through later.  PAIN.
> ;-)So you've just invented a coredump for DOS! ;-)

Only problem was, couldn't get debug to dump more that 65536 bytes at a
time, gee, I wonder why?

Wishlist!  Coredump for OpenDOS!  Plus Full Memory Dump.  (warn those
with multimegabyte machines about having enough free disk space before
blowing in this command though;)

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