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In article <67560@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, kwgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Karol W Gieszczykiewicz) writes:
|> 
|> 	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.

WordPerfect have a "nice" solution they change the prompt!
So just change the environment variable prompt to look like this:

set prompt=Type EXIT to return

But you shold do this in your program i dont know wich language you are writing in, but in C it is simpel, use setenv funtion.

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