Sender: kentb AT vnd DOT tek DOT com Message-ID: <334162AA.41C67EA6@vnd.tek.com> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 11:31:55 -0800 From: Kent Byerley Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, OR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de CC: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: wish list 2.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Matthias Paul wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote: > > > OpenDOS should also support single-stepping the boot as well. > > ??? > > It *does* already (since Novell DOS 7)! (Though, I think it's not > pretty documented, at least not in the Novell docs.) > > Press or while the kernel shows the startup message > "Booting DOS...". These keys work very similar as under MS-DOS > (alternatively, under NWDOS and OpenDOS you can press just the > -key, avoiding annoying beeps caused by a keyboard buffer > overrun), but: > > - Currently, you cannot enter / mode, while showing boot > menus (you can do that under MS-DOS/PC-DOS). > > - In single-stepping, you will than be asked (Y/N) (assuming an > English localized kernel as it is with OpenDOS) for (almost) any > CONFIG.SYS directive (similar to ? before a line). > In foreign countries (and with no keyboard driver loaded at this > stage), this might be very annoying to some people, e.g. here in > Germany you will be asked for 'es' instead of 'a', but > actually have to press the -key, which on our German QWERTZ > keyboard layout is in-place of the on US QWERTY keyboards. > Fortunately, Novell had already implemented a cure for this, but > failed to document it: > Using the undocumented YESCHAR= directive, you can select the > character you want to be asked for instead of , e.g. YESCHAR=J > would fix these problems for Germany. Does this mean that if your an in single step mode the YESCHAR=J directive is found that you will be asked (Y/N) and after that you will be asked (J/N)? > Note, that as with all other directives (except for SWITCHES=), > the YESCHAR= directive takes effect *after* it is parsed by > IBMBIO.COM, and that's in exactly the order, the CONFIG.SYS file > is interpreted (which is completely different under MS-DOS/PC-DOS, > where the CONFIG.SYS will be compiled in some respect). However, > it is much more flexible. > [snip] > > Bye, > > Matthias Paul > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Matthias Paul ! My eMail address has changed. For some time ! > Ubierstrasse 28 ! mails to former ! > D-50321 BRUEHL ! will be forwarded to the new address. ! > eMail: > WWW : URL: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Kent Byerley | We are born naked, kentb AT vnd DOT tek DOT com | wet and hungry. Tektronix, Beaverton, Or | Then things get worse.