Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!tut!santra!taltta!s32935k From: s32935k@taltta.hut.fi (Carl Torsten Stenholm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: DOS query Message-ID: <21864@santra.UUCP> Date: 9 May 89 11:42:34 GMT Sender: news@santra.UUCP Reply-To: s32935k@taltta.hut.fi (Carl Torsten Stenholm) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 42 ----------- I have encountered a couple of problems using MS-D*S working on a Ericsson portable PC (made in Sweden?) but I think it is compatible enough, I'm using ver 2.11. 1. How do I enter a parameter containing a space (' ') into a program or batchfile. 2. Is it possible to start another batchfile from one and jump back into the first, like a subprogram. (I have done this by starting a new shell, there must be an easier way) 3. How do I specify to the MS-D*S where it should put it's temporary file when I'm using redirection or pipes, The MS-D*S 2.11 I'm using utterly fails if the CURRENT drive is full when piping. I have a One-floppy PC with an extra RAM_DISK usually empty. 4. Am I doing something wrong ? Whenever I try to sort something big enough (>64K), MS-D*S enters the Twilight Zone, never to be seen again. 5. Is it possible to read "Current key pressed down" somewhere in memory, It seems the me the only solution is to hook the keyboard interrupt -- I don't want to do that. As far as I can tell from all the reference manuals I've read (~3) the keyboard scan codes are only stored in the keyboard's buffer until the prosessor hooks it and puts it in the keyboard buffer. 6. Is there any D*S with smaller clusters than 2K. 7. Using BIOS windows I sometimes get a boldface "I" on the screen instead of a expansion -- this might be and pobably is my mistake ? Thanks, Ctrl-C.Stenholm s32935k@taltta.hut.fi ------------