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

John Elliott jce at seasip.demon.co.uk
Wed Sep 27 23:52:58 PDT 2006


: Background:
: 
: OpenGEM 4 and 5 used this command in C:\GEM.BAT:
: CD\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS\
: 
: This worked fine in MS-DOS 6 but the version of FreeDOS COMMAND.COM (aka 
: FreeCOM) current at the time failed without a space after CD.
: 
: OpenGEM 6 attempted to adjust to FreeCOM by using this command:
: 
: CD GEMAPPS\GEMSYS

  Oh, well, if that's the case the fault is clearly in GEM.BAT. As you point
out below, the correct command is

CD \GEMAPPS\GEMSYS

  with both the space and the leading backslash.

-- 
John Elliott


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