[GEM Development] OpenGEM/XM operation

[Shane M. Coughlan]

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Peter Green wrote:
> I suppose that one way to sort it would be to write GEM.BAT so that it
> used an IF EXIST line to look for the NUL file in each of the possible
> SUBSTituted drives beyond, say, M: (or backwards from Z: to M:) and took
> the first one it found. That would make for a rather extensive
> batchfile, but...
> Alternatively, could a small executable be created (say with QuickBASIC)
> to generate a form of GEM.BAT based on user input about the available
> drivenames?

Hm, you are raising a very good point here.  It would make a lot of
sense from the OpenGEM perspective (simple, working, turnkey distro) to
just automatically test people's drives.

Does anyone know how to make the IF EXIST batch code to do this?  Off
the top of my head, I'm not sure how to do it.  It would just save me
muddling around.

Shane

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