FreeDOS Command Line Interface
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About
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This software is part of the FreeDOS project. Please email
freedos@sunsite.unc.edu for more information, or visit the freedos
archive at "ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos".  Also,
visit our web page at http://www.freedos.org/.

Please send any bug reports, comments or other info to:

   normat@rpi.edu (Tim Norman)

This software has been developed by the following people:
(listed in approximate chronological order of contributions)

   normat@rpi.edu (Tim Norman)
   mrains@apanix.apana.org.au (Matt Rains)
   ejeffrey@iastate.edu (Evan Jeffrey)
   Steffen.Kaiser@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Steffen Kaiser)
   Svante Frey (sfrey@kuai.se)
   Oliver Mueller (ogmueller@t-online.de)
   Aaron Kaufman (morgan@remarque.berkeley.edu)
   Marc Desrochers (bitzero@hotmail.com)
   Rob Lake (rlake@cs.mun.ca)
   John P. Price (linux-guru@gcfl.net)

Please note that this software is separate from the DOS-C kernel and
may or may not work properly under it.  Of course I am making every
effort to make it compatible.

Installation
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To use this shell, just run the COMMAND.COM file.  Eventually, you
will be able to add this to your CONFIG.SYS file, but this doesn't
currently work.

When it does, you'll be able to add this line to CONFIG.SYS:

SHELL=<shell path><shell filename>

e.g.

SHELL=C:\FREEDOS\COMMAND.COM

(This may or not work... I've received complaints that it doesn't, so
I'd imagine that's the case!)

Current Features
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enviroment handling with prompt and path support.
directory utilities.
command-line history with doskey-like features.
batch file processing
input/output redirection and piping
loadhigh support
alias support

Caution
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Be careful with the DEL.  If there are any problems with it, please
send a bug report to Rob Lake (rlake@cs.mun.ca).  When I was testing
the del command and exited the shell it rebooted my computer.  It
seems to work fine now that it calls unlink instead of remove.