From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Sowden Subject: i just ain't gettin' it Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 18:05:41 -0800 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200302071805.41477.jsowden@americansentry.net> Reply-To: jsowden@americansentry.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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