i just ain't gettin' it

i just ain't gettin' it

[John Sowden]

Please pardon my slowness.
1) doing a "/" search in the dosemu manpage responds with "no pattern found" 
for input or quiet.  I have to assume that my manpage is not current.  It is 
what came with Suse 8.0.

2) I am not clear ("crystal" or otherwise) what the sequence of execution is 
when dosemu is executed.  This is what is keeping me from understanding the 
relevance of all of these commands that are being suggested Icmdline, unix 
-e, etc.)

3) what I am looking to do is execute a different starting batch other than 
"autoexec.bat" upon startup.

4) this may be the wrong approach.  I am looking for, as an alternative, a 
command line option to do something to cause my final startup batch (the one 
with prompt, sets, aliases, etc.) on my dos d: drive to make a decision.  
This might be to set an enviornment variable, create a flag file that I can 
test for later, then discard, or ...?

-- 
John Sowden
American Sentry Systems. Inc.
1221 Andersen Drive
San Rafael, CA  94901

U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service
Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967

jsowden@americansentry.net
http://www.americansentry.net

Re: i just ain't gettin' it

[Bart Oldeman]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, John Sowden wrote:

> Please pardon my slowness.
> 1) doing a "/" search in the dosemu manpage responds with "no pattern found"
> for input or quiet.  I have to assume that my manpage is not current.  It is
> what came with Suse 8.0.

Well, complain to Suse then ;) Seriously, "-input" and "-quiet" are more
convenience options, but not strictly necessary.
In dosemu-1.0.2.1 and later, -quiet tells dosemu to shut up with the usual
message before starting, and -input is a shorthand for -I {keystroke ...

> 2) I am not clear ("crystal" or otherwise) what the sequence of execution is
> when dosemu is executed.  This is what is keeping me from understanding the
> relevance of all of these commands that are being suggested Icmdline, unix
> -e, etc.)

The DOS in DOSEMU simply executes autoexec.bat as usual. And, if you put a
unix -e
command in there it will execute whatever you use using -E.

> 3) what I am looking to do is execute a different starting batch other than
> "autoexec.bat" upon startup.

autoexec.bat is always executed. However inside autoexec.bat you can play
with "unix -e" and "unix -s" and environment variables to execute other
batch files from within autoexec.bat.

Bart