[syslinux] Supporting WinImage compressed images

[G. Murali Krishnan]

Regarding arguments to DOS images:

Check out people.cs.uchicago.edu/~gmurali/gui/downloads.html

You may find getargs.c useful.

- Murali

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Blaauw,Bernd B. wrote:

> Patrick,
> have you seen the "how to pass paramters from Syslinux to DOS images" thread?
> this mailinglist mentioned it first, and I paid attention :)
>
> http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5706
>
> HPA,
> any chance for MDISKCHK to put the "CMDline=" line as first output?
> should not be so difficult for me but first have to figure out OpenWatCOM packages and setup.
>
> putting that line as first output would avoid putting the FIND program on bootdisk and thus save precious diskspace. (MDISKCHK | FIND "CMDLINE" > TEMP.BAT)
>
> MDISKCHK > temp.bat
> call temp.bat
> (which will contain CMDLINE "rest-of-output" and when invoked execute cmdline command, here represented by cmdline.bat
>
> cmdline.bat:
> @echo off
> rem put last commandline parameters passed to memdisk into variable.
> set param=%6
> goto %param%
> rem rest of batchfile
>
> freedos emm386 also seems almost usable by now.
>
> Bernd Blaauw
>
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