Sick of trying to remember those cryptic short filenames?
Sick of trying to remember the syntax of LREDIR or $_hdimage?
Sick of forgetting to include the builtins in your PATH?

Ever wanted to run a DOS app without typing a _single_ DOS command?

Don't delay - try the attached patch today!

Here are the steps for success (tm):

1. Get a copy of 1.1.5.7 or CVS
2. Apply the attached patch
3. make && make install
4. Make sure "unix -c" is put at the end of your autoexec.bat
   (as opposed to the default, "unix -e", which tries to execute
    your commands literally)

Now, you can run your favourite DOS apps like this:

   xdosemu "/home/clarence/games/commander keen/keen1.exe"

And it will automatically:

1. mount / if the specified program is not available from an
   already-redirected drive
2. "cd" to the correct directory
3. and execute the program automagically, all without _any_ typing in DOS

In the process, I "ported" over some more builtins i.e. I just cut and
paste them (except for com_dossetcurrentdir()).

Also, while I was at it, I made a cosmetic change to GetRedirectionRoot()
in mfs.c - maybe it's just me but returning "TRUE" for failure and "FALSE"
for success is just a little bit misleading :P

Thanks go to Stas Sergeev for his help on callbacks and builtins, and
Bart Oldeman for his explanation of make_unmake_dos_mangled_path()
which must have changed at least 3 times during the writing of this patch :P

Enjoy!
Clarence, uncharacteristically writing an ad :)

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