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From: WELCH@bclcl1.im.battelle.org (Bill Welch (614)424-7155)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 4dos quirks
Message-ID: <12407@bclcl1.im.battelle.org>
Date: 1 May 90 15:08:41 GMT
Organization: Battelle-Columbus Labs
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Is there any way in 4DOS v3 to raise the number of nested batch files?
4DOS is currently limited to 4 by my testing (the manual says 5) ...
this is a lot lower than DOS 3.3 which seems to be unlimited.


I have noticed two other minor differences between 4DOS and DOS 3.3:

(1)

4DOS IF statment bombs if the strings contain a / in them:

  IF (....../....)==(xxxxxxx)    will abort on an error


Placing spaces around the == gets around the problem

  IF (...../.....) == (xxxxxxx)    works just fine

(2)

In DOS "ECHO[" will display a blank line but fails in 4DOS. An "ECHO." will
generate a blank line in both 4DOS and DOS3.3.

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