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Article #3308Re: Command.com and a message
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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 12:21
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 12:21
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In article <67560@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, kwgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Karol W Gieszczykiewicz) says:
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> Greetings. I am a C programmer with a bit of 8088 assembly
> "fooling around". I am writing a program that has to load
> command.com (shell). It works, but I want it to display
> a little message that reminds the user of what they did.
> (just so they don't run my program again, instead of "exit"-
> ing back to it).
>
> I know it's possible because WordPerfect does it. Every time
> one presses <enter>, after exiting to shell, a short message
> appears, telling the user to type "exit" to return to
> WP. I want to know how to chain in such a message. I don't
> mind creating a modified copy of command.com and then running
> it.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Take care. I will summarize.
You don't need to do that. Before loading command.com,
...
putenv("prompt=\"Exit\" to return to <progname>$_%%prompt%%");
...
You may not need the formatting commands, this is just off the top of my head.
If they are not needed, change \" to just " and %% to %. This should give you a
prompt of:
"Exit" to return to <progname>
C:\>
at every prompt.
Carl Schelin
tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu
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