To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 13:23:10 -0700
Message-ID: <19970830.132311.9830.1.EchoOFF@juno.com>
From: echooff AT juno DOT com (Lawerence L Nelson)
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         EVAN:

ED> From: Evan Dickinson <evand AT wsunix DOT wsu DOT edu>
ED> In-Reply-To: <19970829 DOT 115011 DOT 3670 DOT 0 DOT EchoOFF AT juno DOT com>
ED> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 14:41:36 -0700 (PDT)

ED> The OS/2 boot manager works quite well.  It comes bundled with
ED> Partition Magic.  I've posted instructions on how to setup Win95
ED> and OpenDOS to the list before, you can read them in the archives
ED> at www.delorie.com/opendos.

      Will definitely check that out. The floppy boot gives me a chance
      to nose around a bit before I commit my system to anything more
      permanent. TKS for the tip.

ED> The only mention of filelist I found in dosbook works like this:

ED> 1) Create a text file containing all the files you want to work with.
ED> It should look like this:

ED> somefile.txt
ED> woo.hoo
ED> blah\something.new

ED> 2) Commands that support the file lists work like this (assuming
ED> you named the file files.del)

ED> xdel @files.del 

ED> this runs xdel on all the files listed in files.del

      That's pretty much what I read too. Alas, no luck.

      Here's what's in Gmp.lst......
c:\odos\wrk2\gmp
c:\odos\wrk2\tst.bak
c:\odos\wrk2\tst.bat

      ..... and here's what's in Tst.bat.....
@echo off
cls
dir c:\odos\wrk2\@gmp.lst 

      ..... I even tried.....
@echo off
cls
dir @c:\odos\wrk2\gmp.lst

      All files are in c:\odos\wrk2 and c:\odos\wrk2 was current
      at the time of running. The response was "File not found".
      
ED> Of course, if you want powerful batch files, go to www.jpsoft.com
ED> and get 4dos.  4dos' batch file features are much more powerful than
ED> MS-DOS and OpenDOS.

      If I need to beef up Batch I usually go to GWbasic but I mostly
      like to work as close to "vanilla" as possible. I,d like to find
      out just how far bareback ODOS will take me before I have to
      get into enhancers or Command.com replacements.

 :L8r
               Larry
               .....In a pinch a stone ax still works.....