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Known Bugs
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COMMAND.COM has problems when loaded from CONFIG.SYS.  Appearantly
MSDOS does not create an initial environment, so command.com has to
do it.  It does not.

When switching to a drive with no disk in it, it doesn't notice, and
you get garbage.

Command-Line editing is really slow because it redraws each time.
(JP-actually, not that slow)

The exec function that was being used by version 0.73 and earlier
does not copy the environment to the child process.  In 0.74 this was
changed to use spawnl, but the exec function should probably be fixed
instead.


Reported Bugs
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From: Steffan
 o let set work with or without the '=' sign.  People like it that
   way.

 o The DEL access()/stat() stuff is still broken (included in my last
   buglist report)

From: Yury Semenov
 o "alias v = dir" doesn't work because of the spaces.

From: John P. Price
 o History.  If you typed a long command line (one that wraps to the
   next line), then if you go back and forth with the up and down
   keys, it scrolls the screen in a weird way.

 o command.com uses too much memory!

 o make filename completion search for exe and com files that match if
   you press tab while typing the first word (the command).


From: Charles Dye
 o DIR displays incorrect year values for dates 1-1-2000 or later.
   Perhaps it would be better to always display years as four
   digits?

 o DIR /P automagically adjusts to different screen heights.  Great!
   But DIR /W doesn't adjust to different widths.

 o CD followed by a drive letter (but no directory name) should
   display the current directory for the specified drive.

 o VER displays the version of COMMAND.COM -- good.  But it should
   also show the DOS version as well.  It might also be nice if VER
   checked for FreeDOS specifically (OEM number of FDh) and
   displayed a special message, the DOS-C build number, etc.
   Furthermore, it might be a good idea to reserve /R for detailed
   DOS info like DOS-is-high, DOS-is-in-ROM, subversion, etc.  (like
   MS- and PC DOS do.)

 o DEL / ERASE now support the badly-missed /P switch.  Great!  Put it
    in the DEL /? syntax screen!  Also, DEL misses files with the
    Hidden and System attributes -- I'm not sure whether that's a
    bug or a deliberate feature.


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