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Why replacing FreeCOM, you ask? See FREECOM.TXT for details.
 
Since SvarCOM is a work-in-progress effort, it is missing a few things yet:
- no support for pipes (eg. file.exe | more)
- no support for advanced batch constructs (conditionals, errorlevels...)
- pipes (cmd.exe | more) and stdin redirections (cmd.exe < file)
- advanced batch constructs (conditionals, errorlevels...)
- a few internal commands missing: CALL, CTTY, GOTO, IF, LH, SHIFT
- DIR misses a few switches (/S, /O, /A)
- ... (see TODO.TXT for more information)
 
SvarCOM is minimalist and I'd like to keep it that way. It aims to be
functionaly equivalent to COMMAND.COM from MS-DOS 5.x/6.x. No LFN support.
 
As of version 2021.0, SvarCOM's resident footprint is under 2 KiB.
 
Translation strings are stored in the file SVARCOM.LNG, which should be
placed in a directory pointed at by %NLSPATH% for SvarCOM to be able to output
messages in non-english languages. SvarCOM's language is controlled by the