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EDR-DOS development (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 29.08.2023, 23:28

> Actually, I noticed that to non-interactively overwrite a file using COPY,
> FreeCOM requires the COPY switch /Y, while EDR-DOS command defaults to
> overwriting. I added
> a /Y switch to EDR-DOS, which is a no-op by default. (It does
> override /C if both are used.) This makes my modified make.bat
> files fully work on both shells.

%COPYCMD% was introduced in, what, MS-DOS 5? In .BAT files, COPY defaults to /Y, otherwise if interactive it asks you before overwriting.

 

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