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-FreeDOS Command Line Interface Development History
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-11/11/94 version 0.01
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o initial release.
-
-01/01/95 version 0.10
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o removed some scaffolding.
-o modified CD.
-o added tab file completion.
-o added command line history.
-
-01/15/95 version 0.20
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o formatted all existing source modules.
-o added prompt support.
-o added drive selection.
-o added dir command.
-o started this development log.
-
-08/06/95 prerelease of version 0.30
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o reorganized code into separate source modules.
-o added batch processing support (thanks to Evan Jeffrey).
-o added exec code (thanks to Steffan Kaiser).
-o removed environment handling (thanks again to Steffan Kaiser)
-
- [ 08/08/95 -- Matt Rains ]
-o formatted this development log.
-o formatted all existing source modules so that they comply with recommended
- programming practice.
-o added MD command.
-o added RD command.
-o added VER command.
-o replaced CD command.
-o modified DIR command.
-o DIR now called regardless of other DIR.??? files. this is done because of
- exec() problems.
-
-12/10/95 version 0.30
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o used Borland's spawnve to fix exec problem
-o fixed CD again so you don't need a space after it
-o couple of spelling fixes
-
-12/14/95 version 0.31
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o modified cmdinput.c to work with non-standard screen sizes (see 28.com)
-o fixed a bug in history.c that made it not work when you hit the up arrow
- on the first line
-o fixed DIR to work a little more like MS-DOS's DIR (see internal.c)
-o fixed some code in where.c to make things a bit more efficient and nicer
-
-01/06/96 version 0.40 (never released)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o added redirection and piping support!!! (see redir.c and command.c)
-o fixed a stupid pointer problem in where.c that was causing LOTS of
- problems in the strangest places...
-o added day of the week support to prompt.c (oops, that was already supposed
- to be there! :)
-o fixed and reorganized the EXEC code!!! Thanks to Svante Frey!
-o reorganized command.c and internal.c to handle parsing internal commands
- more efficiently and consistently.
-o changed the behavior of MD, CD, RD to work without spaces (e.g. CD\DOS)
-o small changes here and there to make it work with redirection/piping
- (e.g. DIR only pauses if you're not doing redirection)
-
-01/17/96 version 0.50
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Version 0.40 was never released because I was home on Christmas vacation,
-and I couldn't upload it. By the time I got back to school, I had the
-LOADHIGH patch from Svante Frey, so I decided to jump up to 0.50 without any
-release of 0.40... - Tim Norman
-
-o LOADHIGH/LOADFIX/LH support added!!!! Many thanks go to Svante Frey!
-o bug fixed in command parsing that didn't handle / switches correctly...
-o removed debugging output from history.c
-
-07/26/96 version 0.60
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Lots of internal changes here... Not much added to the interface.
-
-o Changed internals to use first,rest parameters instead of arrays of params
-o Fixed some bugs
-o Some other things I don't remember :)
-
-07/26/96 version 0.61
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Bugfixes
-
-o Added hook to the PATH command
-o Fixed CD.. bug
-
-08/27/96 version 0.70
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Finally added Oliver Mueller's ALIAS command! Also numerous bug fixes.
-
-o Added ALIAS command
-o Removed support for - as a switch in LOADHIGH.C
-o Bugfixes in BATCH.C. %0 was returning garbage
-o Removed lots of unused variables, reducing # of warnings when compiling
-o Other miscellaneous code clean-ups
-o Changed WHERE.C to use a little less memory
-
-06/14/97 version 0.71
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Lots of bug fixes, plus some additional features.
-
-o New DIR command. Now more like MS-DOS's DIR. /p supported, /s coming soon
-o bug fix in internal.c - parse_firstarg
-o Rewrote parser in batch.c (Steffan Kaiser)
-o Ctrl-Break checking in various places (Steffan Kaiser)
-o Error level setting/checking (%? in batch files) (Steffan Kaiser)
-o bug fix in cmdinput.c ("%i" on command-line caused weird behavior)
-o bug fix in where.c (first item in path wasn't searched)
-
-07/12/97 version 0.72
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-More bug fixes and code cleanup
-
-o Rewrote cmdinput.c to be more efficient (Marc Desrochers)
-o Added insert/overstrike modes (Marc Desrochers)
-o Replaced findxy() with pointers into BIOS (maxx, maxy) (Marc Desrochers)
-o Fixed bug that disallowed listing of root directories
-o Fixed bug that didn't search the first path (again!)
-
-07/13/97 version 0.72b
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Disabled a feature that caused a crash on some machines.
-
-o Replaced setcursor calls in cmdinput.c with _setcursortype
-o Added dir.c to the distribution (was left out in 0.72)
-
-07/01/98 version 0.73 (Rob Lake)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o New DIR commands supported: /S, /B, /L, /A and /W.
- (/R changed to /S). Also /? added.
-o Supports DIRCMD in environment.
-o Supports turning off commands with hyphen (ex. /-S
- turns off recursive listing)
-o Changed error messages for DIR and DEL to more MS-DOS'ish
-o Moved error messages from DIR.C and DEL.C to COMMAND.H
- (more may go there soon)
-o Fixed bug that caused dir *.ext/X not to work (no spaces
- between filespec and slash)
-o Added wildcard support for DEL command
-o Added prompt and help switch for DEL command, /P and /?
- respectively.
-o Added support for /C when invoking the shell
-o Added /P support when Kernel loads shell. This means
- the shell now is permanent and runs the autoexec.bat
- (/E is not implemented)
-o Added my name (Rob Lake) to the developer listing
-o Changed version routine to print out copyright notice
- with no args, and with appropriate switches, warranty
- and redistribution notices and developer listing
-
-07/08/1998 version 0.74 (John P. Price (linux-guru@gcfl.net))
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-COMMAND.C/COMMAND.H:
-o Now sets COMSPEC environment variable
-o misc clean up and optimization
-o added date, time and type commands
-o changed to using spawnl instead of exec. exec does not copy the
- environment to the child process!
-DIR.C
-o removed extra returns; closer to MSDOS
-o fixed wide display so that an extra return is not displayed when
- there is five filenames in the last line.
-ENVIRON.C
-o commented out show_environment function. Not used anymore.
-INTERAL.C
-o removed call to show_environment in set command.
-o moved test for syntax before allocating memory in set command.
-o misc clean up and optimization.
-
-o created DATE.C
-o created TIME.C
-o created TYPE.C
-
-07/08/1998 version 0.74b (John P. Price (linux-guru@gcfl.net))
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-COMMAND.C
-o fixed call to spawnl so that it would pass command line arguments
- correctly.
-
-07/12/98 version 0.74c (Rob Lake rlake@cs.mun.ca)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Various Files:
-o removed redundant use of error message defines and moved
- error printing calls to ERROR.C to reduced program size.
-
-o created MISC.C
-o created ERR_HAND.C/H
-o created ERROR.C
-
-07/13/98 version 0.74d (Rob Lake rlake@cs.mun.ca)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-INTERNAL.C
-o removed most of the commands and placed them in there own file
- -- del, ren, set and ver
-o created DEL.C, REN.C SET.C and VER.C
-o fixed bug that caused del not to delete files with no attributes
-o the critical error handler count number of times called, autofails
- at 5 calls
-
-
-16 Jul 1998 (Hans B Pufal <hansp@digiweb.com>)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-batch.c
- A new version, implements CALL, ECHO, GOT, IF, PAUSE, SHIFT and
- BEEP. There is a stub for FOR but that's all.
-
-cmdtable.c
- New file to keep the internal command table. I plan on getting rid
- of the table real soon now and replacing it with a dynamic
- mechanism.
-
-command.c
- A new (improved ;) version. Conforms closely to MS-DOS specs.
- Cleaned up (and fixed) the redirection handler.
-
-command.h
- Version D with changes. Look for the HBP tag.
-
-redir.c
- Modified file, now supports append redirects.
-
-
-16 Jul 1998 (Rob Lake rlake@cs.mun.ca)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Added TRUENAME command.
-
-
-19 Jul 1998 (Hans B Pufal) <hansp@digiweb.com>)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Preserve state of echo flag across batch calls.
-o Implementation of FOR command
-
-
-20 Jul 1998 (John P Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Fixed bug in DATE.C.
-o Fixed bug in LH.ASM.
-o Separated commands into individual files.
-
-
-28 Jul 1998 (John P Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Added CLS command.
-o Put ifdef's around all commands and added include file config.h
- Now you can define exact what commands you want to include in
- command.com.
-o Also added ifdefs for optional features: aliases, command history
- and filename completion.
-o Added display of available internal commands and options at startup.
-
-
-29 Jul 1998 (Rob Lake rlake@cs.mun.ca)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o changed date.c and time.c, and wrote datefunc.c and timefunc.c to
- implement _dos_getdate, _dos_setdate, _dos_gettime and _dos_settime.
- This is the first of many steps to make the shell compatible under
- Pacific C.
-
-30-Jul-1998 (John P Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Changed filename completion so that a second TAB displays a list of
- matching filenames!
-o made filename be lower case if last character typed is lower case.
-o Moved filename completion code to filecomp.c.
-o Change ver command to display email address to report bugs, and the
- web page address for updates.
-o fixed so that it find_which returns NULL if filename is not
- executable (does not have .bat, .com, or .exe extension). Before
- command would to execute any file with any extension. (opps!)
-
-30-Jul-1998 (John P Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Fixed bug where if you typed something, then hit HOME, then tried to
- type something else in insert mode, it locked up.
-o Changed default insert mode to on. There should be a way to change
- this. Maybe options to doskey command.
-o Added VERIFY command
-
-02-Aug-1998 (Hans B Pufal) <hansp@digiweb.com>)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o batch.c: Fixed bug in ECHO flag restoration at exit from batch file
-o command.c: Fixed return value when called with /C option
-o Terminate label on first space character, use only first 8 chars of
- label string
-
-04-Aug-1998 (Hans B Pufal) <hansp@digiweb.com>)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o call.c: added lines to initialize for pointers. This fixed the
- lock-up that happened sometimes when calling a batch file from
- another batch file.
-
-07-Aug-1998 (John P Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Fixed carriage return output to better match MSDOS with echo on or off.
-
-
-07-Dec-1998 ReactOS CMD version 0.0.1 (Eric Kohl)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o First test release.
-o Added internal ATTRIB command.
-
-11-Dec-1998 ReactOS CMD version 0.0.2 (Eric Kohl)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Fixed bug in ALIAS. CMD crashed when you tried to remove an alias.
-o Fixed bug in split(). Added freep(). This fixed the DEL command.
-o Improved ATTRIB command.
-o Added most help texts.
-o Fixed recursive DIR ("dir /s").
-o Fixed DATE and TIME command. Now they accept values when used
- without parameter.
-o Implemented LABEL command.
-
-05-Jan-1999 ReactOS CMD version 0.0.3 (Eric Kohl)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Added COLOR command and "/t" option.
-o Cursor shows insert/overwrite mode.
-o COMSPEC environment variable is set upon startup.
-o Started COPY command.
-o Started MOVE command.
-o Added directory stack (PUSHD and POPD commands).
-o Added support for file names or paths that contain spaces
- (quoted paths / file names).
-o Added recursion to ATTRIB command.
-o Added locale support for DIR, DATE, TIME and PROMPT.
-o Fixed VERIFY.
-
-10-Feb-1999 ReactOS CMD version 0.0.4 (Eric Kohl)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o "?" lists all available commands.
-o Most commands are unicode and redirection aware now.
-o Input-, Output- and Error-Redirections works with most commands.
-o ATTRIB and DEL can handle multiple filenames now.
-o Fixed handling of environment variables.
-o Added CHCP command.
-o Fixed keyboard input bug.
-o Rewrote DEL and MOVE commands.
-
-28-Dec-1999 ReactOS CMD version 0.1 (Eric Kohl)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Cleaned up DIR command.
-o Searching for executables in the right order.
-o Fixed some little but nasty bugs.
-o Added TITLE command. Thanks to Emanuele Aliberti!
-o Added "/Q", "/W" and "/Z" options to DEL command.
-o Added CHOICE, TIMER, FREE and MEMORY commands.
-o Added MSGBOX command (not available under ReactOS).
-o Added and fixed missing help texts.
-o Fixed bugs in MD and RD that crashed cmd when no directory was specified.
-o Improved history support.
-o Improved COLOR command.
-
-09-Apr-2000 ReactOS CMD version 0.1 (Eric Kohl)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Fixed bug in COPY command. CMD crashed if source file didn't exist.
-
-13-Jul-2000 ReactOS CMD version 0.1.1 (Eric Kohl)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Implemented 'ECHO.' and 'ECHOERR.' commands.
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