[GEM Development] GEM.BAT fails with ChDir under FreeDOS

[John Hupp]

To eliminate the more extreme circumstance: we're not talking about starting 
from a current directory on another drive (e.g. D:).  It would be like 
starting from C:\STUFF\FILES\OTHER.  And the PATH mechanism seems to work, 
since it finds C:\GEM.BAT and begins executing that.  But then from within 
the batch file it fails when it tries to execute CD \GEMAPPS\GEMSYS.

I do believe that command worked OK in GEM.BAT in past versions of GEM 
(except for FreeDOS demanding a space before the path), so perhaps it is a 
FreeDOS problem.

I have posted the problem in their user mail-list as well.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ben A L Jemmett
To: GEM Development
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [GEM Development] GEM.BAT fails with ChDir under FreeDOS


Quoting John Hupp <opengem at prpcompany.com>:
> Perhaps I've unintentionally changed a PATH entry or some such.  I don't
> think so.  At any rate, the GEM.BAT installed by GEM 6 bundled with 
> FreeDOS
> 1.0 fails at CD \GEMAPPS\GEMSYS if you try to start GEM from outside the
> root directory on a pure FreeDOS machine.

That sounds like something's broken, either in FreeDOS or in OpenGEM.

If you're in, say, C:\STUFF\FILES\OTHER and the CD \GEMAPPS\GEMSYS does not 
put
you in C:\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS, then FreeDOS is broken...  I don't use it (or 
OpenGEM,
for that matter) so wouldn't know, but if that's the case then I'd be very
surprised!

If you're in, say, D:\ then CD \GEMAPPS\GEMSYS will (correctly) fail -- but 
CD
C:\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS won't change current drive under any version of MS-DOS 
that I
know of.  As such, OpenGEM's GEM.BAT should have a C: command to change 
current
drive at some point.  If that's after the CD \GEMAPPS\GEMSYS line then your 
fix
is fine, but it'd probably be equally sensible to just move the C: command 
to
before the CD for Shane's bugfix release *grin*

-- 
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

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