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Updated 052111: Newly written!! This is an early full version tool, currently in development. Use at your own risk.

Portable Cmd Box

PCmdBox is a cmd.exe stub file with an auto-executing companion batch file. It's purpose is to allow a tech to make his personal library of batches, extended tools, and etc. easily portable for cd or thumb-drive use.

This is the portable cmd box used in TFGCmd 7... Now written in Delphi, and replacing the BASIC version.

To use PCmdBox:

Put the essential files (PCmdBox.exe, PcmdBox.ini, and PCmdStart.cmd) together, somewhere on your thumb, or within your cd master. Edit PCmdStart.cmd, treating it much as one would treat autoexec.bat: Set variables, place folders in the path, and etc... Save and close PCmdStart.cmd, and run PCmdBox.exe. Rinse & repeat until refined. Then give it a link in your front-end menu.

Helpful Hints:

You'll find that your batch work (PcmdStart.cmd) is easier and more reliable if you plan for relativity:

In the batch. find the batch file path, change to it's directory.
Then cd ..\..\ , manipulating the directory you are in using relative navigation.

Don't worry about killing your vars, as they will die when the CmdBox exits.

New in PCmdBox:

This rewritten Delphi edition functions exactly like the old one, except for one thing:
The internal handling of paths conforms to the standard (supposed standard) in that the backslash is removed... so relative paths in the inifile must begin with a backslash.

I have also included an inifile, so the name of PCmdStart.cmd can be changed - and the batch can be moved relative to PCmdBox's root directory.

And finally PCmdBox.exe's name can be changed, provided that it's companion inifile is named the same way. This is a nod to those who wished for a way to run more than one CmdBox configuration - Now just rename PCmdBox, rename the batch (in the inifile too) and set up a wholly different scenario.

Download PCmdBox (Win2k-Win7 32/64, WinRescue tested (based upon LiveXP, Vista and Win7 32bit mini platforms))

Transitory license is public (free, no warranty whatsoever, use at your own risk)
Permanant license will probably be GPL. Not releasing source till time-proved stable.

::TFG