Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 20:57:18 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOSCMD: Misc questions Message-ID: <19980120205718.24303@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199801190118.LAA00398@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 11:48:42AM %2B1030 References: <19980118183139.14729@ct.picker.com> <199801190118.LAA00398@word.smith.net.au>
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Mike Smith:
|> When DOSCMD starts up, it seems to need a key hit to continue loading DOS.
|> Is this normal?
|
|No. It may be due to something that you are loading in your CONFIG.SYS
|file which is unhappy with the quality of the low-level keyboard
|emulation. Have you tried working out what is hanging? Do you load
|the KEYB.SYS driver? (this last is known to cause problems).
I renaming the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT so they wouldn't be found and it
still paused for a key. I then reformatted that DOS partition completely
and fdisk /mbr'ed the disk to get rid of the boot manager (OS/BSbeta) I had
on it. Still got the hang.
It may be related to DOS 6.2 -- I noticed the mention in the man page:
It should be noted that MS DOS
6.2 and higher appear to cause difficulties for doscmd.
|> Funny thing is that this key stays around in the keyboard buffer and is fed
|> to the next program requesting a key (HDM in my case, a hard disk manager
|> utility, which I start up from my autoexec.bat).
|
|Not actually very surprising; I expect that there is a program waiting
|for status from the keyboard. Hitting the key gets the status updated,
|but it never pulls the character itself.
Doesn't look like its getting to the config files, so since I see "Starting
MSDOS..." before the key-wait, I guess we're somewhere in IO.SYS or
MSDOS.SYS (?)
Randall
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