'Dos9' is now "Picobat"

The Picobat project

Overview

Picobat is a free (as in freedom) and cross platform batch interpreter intended as an alternative to CMD, the native windows interpretor for batch files.

It is designed around 3 key-ideas :

• Portability, with the ability of being run on a variety of platforms from Windows to almost any Unix-based operating system (Linux, Bsd…) and architecture from pc to arm-based. With a few tricks, you can even get Picobat to run on an android smartphone.

• Speed, Picobat reaches incredibly high execution speed on Unix-based systems. It also provides an internal multi-threading system that allows it to overtake CMD on execution speed on windows.

• Lightness and flexibility, Picobat is designed to be lightweight and be used in many different ways, from the regular set-up to the embedded installation on an USB stick for example.

Features

After almost 10 years of intermittent development, Picobat now features a really wide range of functionalities from basic general batch programming to Picobat specific extensions. Among them :

• Full support of environment variables with extensions to support floating point arithmetic.

• Improved support of IF command with extensions that enable more complex expressions to be specified.

• Support of all FOR command flavours, allowing to specify more complex script-based input.

• Enhanced support of jumps via GOTO and CALL, with the ability to specify both file name and label at a time.

• Brand-new, really aesthetic HELP command to provide the most complete information about batch programing.

• A lot of commands and extensions associated with them that make batch programming an even more exciting programing language !

Sounds Great, isn’t it ? Why not give Picobat a try ? Installation details and instruction can be found here.