Subj : Release of v3.4?
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Ulrich Schroeter
Date : Sat May 25 2013 00:06:00

moin Kees,

Friday May 24 2013 18:31, you wrote to Bob Seaborn:

 KE> Hello Bob!
 KE> 24 May 13 09:08, you wrote to me:
 BS>> ...
 BS>>       Currently I am running OS/2 ver 4.05 with 4OS2 ver 3.02,
 BS>> plus 4DOS 6.02, and have no plans to change.
 KE>  Thanks, now we know what the target system for testing is.
 KE>  4OS2 and 4DOS only replace the command shell, I suppose those are
 KE> only needed for testing of batch files.

from the early 90's I know about fidonode sysops who used these extensions for 
advanced scripting  :)
ahh .. this reminds me, that there is a slightly chance to find the backup of a 
system from the named sysop with 4DOS installed   =:)
that I probably can use for testing   :)))
....
and found it  =:)
on one of the around 25 workstation backups  =:)
4dos4U.zip and 4Patch.zip and extracted in a directory ...
and many scripts with .btm file extensions  =:)

sample script called vollst.btm
................................................................
rem @echo off
set v_tb=
for %x in (c d e f g) do (
  set v_tb=%@substr[%@label[%x:]    ,0,11]%v_tb
)
set l=%@index[%v_tb,RAMDISK]
iff %l ge 0 then
  set v_rd=%@substr[cdefg,%@eval[4-%l/11],1]:
else
  set v_rd=::
endiff
................................................................

try this in a dos shell  ,-)

addtl. note: config.sys loads 4dos.com with a 4dos.ini reference
so completely replaces command.com



 KE> Kees

regards, uli   ;-)

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