Category : Batch File Utilities - mostly for DOS
Archive   : FREEDOS1.ZIP
Filename : FREE-DOS.DOC
FREE
DOS version 1.0 (c)1993 Hearty Mosquito SoftWare
Hearty Mosquito SoftWare is not responsible for anything.
Use at your own risk.
If you like and use this program, send $5 for encouragement to:
Hearty Mosquito SoftWare
4216 29th Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55406
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This program reports free space available on a drive, or group of drives.
It will exit with an errorlevel that corresponds to the number of free
megabytes on the LAST drive reported.
Thus, if:
42,661,888 bytes total on drive C:
8,058,880 bytes free.
FREE will exit with errorlevel 7.
1 megabyte is 1024 bytes x 1024 so FREE exits with errorlevel 7, even though
the there are more than 8 million *bytes* free.
This makes FREE ideal for use in batch files with single drives that require
a specific amount of free disk space.
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Syntax:
FREE [?] [a] [b] ...
Parameters:
Using ? as the first parameter will tell FREE to display the
errorlevel when it exits:
Other parameters can be any combination of drives. Only the first letter
of each parameter so the following will all result in the same output:
FREE c d
FREE C: d:
free cheers dilbert
FREE CALKFALSKFDASLKDFJASLFKJ DQQPOWIERPWQOIRWORI
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Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/