DOS ain't dead - A question about the new /J switch for TSRs

A question about the new /J switch for TSRs (Developers)

posted by bretjohn , Rio Rancho, NM, 03.04.2023, 06:27

> Don't know what you mean by "entry point" but I certainly don't want to
> assign half a dozen switches just for the various options now provided for
> /J. (And they aren't all memory-related.)

What exactly is the commonality between the options associated with /J? They aren't all memory-related, but AFAICT the only relationship is that you don't have any other place to put them -- it seems to be a sort of "miscellaneous" category.

It also seems like you're trying to organize it sort of in a menu-oriented scheme like you might do in a non-TSR program with an "Other" or "Miscellaneous" or "Tools" option as the top level. That's what I meant by an "entry point".

As an example, in some of my TSR's I have options for the different types of "special" memory that can be used (Upper, EMS, or DPMS). I have options for each of those possibilities with a "Yes" or "No" switch. For example, I have /EMS:Yes, but I don't have a /Memory:EMS:Yes since I think that is unnecessarily redundant.

It also seems like your wanting to try and make all options be a single character and that's useful (mnemonics) but I've found it to be impractical. Even a relatively simple TSR can have too many options to come up with unique characters that make sense. I've found that I can't always have single-character options and need to use whole words.

I've also found that the TSRs are all so different from each other that trying to make a common set of switches really isn't practical, either. I think the only two options that are common to most of mine are /U (usually aliased as /Uninstall, /Remove, and /Out) and /? (usually aliased as /H, /Hlp, and /Help).

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