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Article #1053Re: A batch programming contest for you
From: Ross Ridge
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:23
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:23
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yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Yossi Gil) writes: >My trick is to create > shell=command.com /p nul line in my config.sys file. This will >make command.com start with the nul device as its standard >input/output. It is undocumented, but worked in all of the many dos >versions I have tried it on. It's documented in the MS-DOS 5.0 manual. > <NUL> con ver >not mentioning > > if not if == not shift else ; endif > >These may prove useful to encrypt your batch files. Encrypt? Try lightly obfuscated, you're not going to fool many people with above tricks, not for long at least. Ross Ridge -- Ross Ridge - The Great HTMU l/ // [OO][oo] ross@zooid.guild.org /()\/()/ uunet.ca!zooid!ross db //
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!geac!zooid!ross From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> Subject: Re: A batch programming contest for you Organization: ZOOiD BBS Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:23:38 GMT Message-ID: <1992Aug20.022338.16416@zooid.guild.org> References: <1992Aug18.052017.3758@uwasa.fi> <1992Aug19.065119.10003@cs.ubc.ca> Lines: 27