Reporting two tiny problems

[Lucas Kiwi]

Guys,

   This is probably not very important and maybe other people have already reported it and perhaps it has already been corrected, because the FreeDOS I have installed on my computer was downloaded some months ago, maybe a year. Yet, just in case, I thought I'd better post it, to see if it helps.
   There are two little things that, at least on my laptop computer, seem not to be working well when I run FreeDOS:

1) When the CONFIG.SYS menu comes up, no matter how many options the menu has, I can only access the first three. I can move up and down with the arrow keys, but I can go no further down that to the third option. This happened from the moment I first installed it, with the default CONFIG.SYS, but I tried modifying it and the same thing happens

2) If I'm running FreeCOM (COMMAND.COM) and I run an application with a command line and add a redirection operator, trailing spaces after the command line and before the operator will be passed to the application, often causing it to fail the purpose of the command. For example, if I type "MYPACK myfile.dat > result.txt", I may get a message like "File not found: 'myfile.dat '. Or more common, if I enter "EXTRACT thisfile.pak |more", it may come up with "Invalid file name: 'thisfile.pak '. Extension should be '.pak' or '.zp'. Things like that

   I know I can easily avoid these instances, but in the event that they are easy to fix, it's something. Thank you all very much,

                  Lucas

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[Christian Masloch]

> 1) When the CONFIG.SYS menu comes up, no matter how many options the  
> menu has, I can only access the first three. I can move up and down with  
> the arrow keys, but I can go no further down that to the third option.  
> This happened from the moment I first installed it, with the default  
> CONFIG.SYS, but I tried modifying it and the same thing happens

Might be related to the fact that option #4 doesn't work since there's no  
line which uses option #4. If you understand the FDCONFIG.SYS menu  
structure, add some line which does nothing and is executed for all  
options.

> 2) If I'm running FreeCOM (COMMAND.COM) and I run an application with a  
> command line and add a redirection operator, trailing spaces after the  
> command line and before the operator will be passed to the application,  
> often causing it to fail the purpose of the command. For example, if I  
> type "MYPACK myfile.dat > result.txt", I may get a message like "File  
> not found: 'myfile.dat '. Or more common, if I enter "EXTRACT  
> thisfile.pak |more", it may come up with "Invalid file name:  
> 'thisfile.pak '. Extension should be '.pak' or '.zp'. Things like that
>
>    I know I can easily avoid these instances, but in the event that they  
> are easy to fix, it's something.

This behaviour is consistent with MS-DOS COMMAND.COM's. Fix your programs  
to cut any trailing and leading whitespace (tabs and spaces) from the  
command line before using the filename.

Regards,
Christian

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