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How about the Costa Shell got some kind of easy, no-hassle program installer, to make it easy to install games and programs into the DOS system?
I mean, when I download a zipfile, from myabandonware.com, its would be very nice, just to let Costa do the "installation" and the creation of the desktop shortcut :-)
Costa could have some built-in recognition of known programs and games, which could be used to autosetup the desktop shortcut with the right icon and name.
It the build-in logic can not recognize a program, it should create shortcuts the whatever .exe, .com and .bat file it finds in the zipfile.
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Hi,
This is another DOS problem I am working in the background and relates to the "Auto add applications" suggestion. DOS didn't have much of a standard when it came to application locations. Even pif files can end up in multiple locations.
At the moment I am launching ALL applications from a BAT either in the system\DOS directory or the application directory. I am considering moving all application start up BAT file to a single "Launch", "Appstart" or some similar named directory in my future DOS install and adding the bat directory to the system path.
My current FreeDOS install uses a base config.sys(with boot menu) and autoexec.bat to set base paths and drivers.
I then run a basic launch menu after autoexec to load the shell/launcher I want to use I don't load any custom path environments here.
Either from Costa or File Maven 3 I then run the batch file for the individual application where I have to set specific environment variables in the bat for that application. ALL apps run from a batch file.
If I move all of those batch files to a single directory and set the path to it in autoexec I can then launch the application name.bat form any directory without the fully qualified path.
I think the question is" "Where do I install an application to?" as DOS had no "Program Files" directory. I currently use C:\PROGS as my default for manual installs, but many installers will go to root and some other variety of locations. Even FreeDOS fdimples uses a number of different program directories including C:\PROGS.
The other issue is stopping app installers from altering my config.sys and autoexec.bat by adding it's own environment variable and paths.
How about the Costa Shell got some kind of easy, no-hassle program installer, to make it easy to install games and programs into the DOS system?
I mean, when I download a zipfile, from myabandonware.com, its would be very nice, just to let Costa do the "installation" and the creation of the desktop shortcut :-)
Costa could have some built-in recognition of known programs and games, which could be used to autosetup the desktop shortcut with the right icon and name.
It the build-in logic can not recognize a program, it should create shortcuts the whatever .exe, .com and .bat file it finds in the zipfile.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: