#23 [freecom] [A]bort [R]etry [I]ngore [F]*** to the infinity

[dos386]

SET PATH=A:\
BLAH

(assuming no disk in A:\ drive and no BLAH in current directory)

gives (see subj) :-( This sucks ... someone might not consider this as BUG since MS-DOG probably used to do the same ... but in FreeDOS I have to press "A" 100 times before it finally aborts while in EDR-DOS 1 press is sufficient, and this 100 times definitely is a bug of FreeDOS.

http://www.freedos.org/bugzilla/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=1049

> (fixed 2032a?)

NOT fixed or regression.

[C. Masloch]

I'd guess that's a FreeCOM bug.

[C. Masloch]

I'd guess that's a FreeCOM bug.

[dos386]

> I'd guess that's a FreeCOM bug.

Fixed subject.

Also fixed (actually hacked, and partially only) the BUG:

http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=9740

[dos386]

Well, FreeCOM has (OTOH EDR-DOS hasn't) an "undocumented" switch "/F" that indeed __DISABLES__ this fault :-)

So the issues are:

- Defaults to "YES-do-ARF" (someone might not consider this a bug, since that's what MS-DOG used to do also)

- If ARF is enabled, I have to push "A" or "F" many times before it gives up. This still is a bug, although it doesn't really bother me anymore since I placed "/F" into my FDCONFIG.SYS ;-)

[dos386]

Related:

http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2691512&group_id=5109&atid=105109

"Kernel invalid call the Int 24 user interrupt handler"