I think I've even seen PCBs that used wires in lieu of an additional layer, as part of their design, back when multilayer board fabrication was $$$. This one's clearly a factory bodge wire though. From back when even the factory had a culture of repair. Shout-out to Louis Rossmann.

What about the Windows (or ReactOS) expand can it run in Wine and also decompress the MS-DOS files? I've used the Windows 10 one to decompress 9x and NT4. Never tried it with MS-DOS. I don't know where I would get a copy of those other versions of expand. If ReactOS has its own version, perhaps …

Spaces are treated as delimiters, so I'd try quotes to get around that, e.g.: dosbox.exe -c "expand.exe program.ex_ program.exe" I'm not sure we're not talking at cross-purposes. I'm trying to pass DOSBox a command with parameters from a Unix-like shell. Your dosbox .exe would seem to suggest …

@bregolin: I did consider making a batch file, and in fairness, dosbox TEST.BAT works, so thanks anyway for that hint. I really, really would like to write a Unix-like shell script though, and even having a shell script write a .BAT file is only an ugly, second-best option. @DosFreak: As far as I …

The DOSBox man page explains that one should be able to run a DOS command/program directly from a Unix-like bash (etc.) shell: dosbox [file] Accordingly, I can run this: dosbox EXPAND.EXE However, I want to use EXPAND.EXE non-interactively and I want to script this from bash. I would like to run the …

does the @echo on or @echo off command do anything? At the CLI prompt (as opposed to in a *.BAT file)? Yes, in fact it does; it shows/hides the prompt. I don't think it used to do that traditionally; I think @echo off only had an(y lasting) effect in a *.BAT file. I don't however understand enough …

Traditionally, DOS allowed you to use COPY to create simple files via: C:\>COPY CON FILENAME.TXT This is a line that ends in return. This is another line ending in return. ^Z 1 file copied. C:\> In stock DOSBox 0.74, COPY CON FILENAME.TXT does not echo the line as it's being typed, and it does not …