05-12-2006
It is going to be difficult. The DOS shell provides very few of the things you're probably using a shell for; it has no glob matching, no real looping structures except IF x THEN GOTO y, no string operations, no quoted strings(!!) unless the application itself parses them, no elegant way to launch or wait on background processes, only very limited use of pipes, and can't even tell you what your working directory is!
If you posted a little of your existing code I could show how to convert some of it, perhaps, depending on if that was possible. Alternatively, a language like Perl might be more suitable.
Last edited by Corona688; 05-12-2006 at 12:06 PM..
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NAME
mrd - mtools utility to remove a DOS directory
SYNOPSIS
mrd msdosdirectory [msdosdirectories...]
DESCRIPTION
The mrd command removes a directory from a DOS file system. If the directory is not empty, an error occurs. Unlike DOS conventions, this
command allows multiple arguments.
DOS subdirectory names that contain the '/' or '' separator are supported. If you use the '' separator or wildcards, you must enclose
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The mcd command can be used to establish the device and the current working directory (relative to DOS), otherwise the default is A:.
EXIT STATUS
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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FILES
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SEE ALSO
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