Subj : Re: Thin client PC to run MS-DOS
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Dec 07 2025 16:29:28

  Re: Re: Thin client PC to run MS-DOS
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to phigan on Sat Dec 06 2025 11:32 am

 > Subject: Re: Thin client PC to run MS-DOS
 > @MSGID: <693484C2.202.dove.hardware@realitycheckbbs.org>
 > @REPLY: <693370AB.1247.dove-hwswhelp@tacopronto.bbs.io>
 > @TZ: 41e0
 > -=> phigan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
 >
 >  > Most apps put themselves in the same directory name as the executable. A
 >  > crafty sort would write a batch file called go.bat that read:
 >
 >  ph> I did stuff like that for a bit and then the OCD in me got pissed at
 >  ph> all the extra files laying about so I deleted them.
 >
 > You'd only need one batch file - using command line variables, it'd take
 > the first argument on the command line, change directory to the
 > directory named %1, then run the command %1.
 >
 > go, "go procomm" would be the same as running:
 >
 > cd \procomm
 > procomm
 >
 > type in "go telix" and it'd run:
 >
 > cd \telix
 > telix

Or just put \procomm and \telix in your search PATH. Most of those programs were smart enough to be able to find their config/data files based on argv[0] and didn't really need the current working directory to be "their" directory upon invocation.
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