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sabre@microsupport.sas.upenn.edu (Andrew White) writes:

> In article <v3gq0yl@lynx.unm.edu> moeur@chtm.eece.unm.edu (Bill Moeur) writes
> >In article <Bxn4nE.8IH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Ri
> >
> >>to kill machines. I'm not trying to write a virus. I made a bet with
> >>a friend that the copy command (or any other internal dos command)
> >>could be "turned off." What I want to do is simple. I want dos to access
> >>a file called "copy.bat" whenever anyone types in a copy command. The
> >>problem is that dos always checks for internal commands (copy) first,
> >>so dos never even looks at copy.bat, it just declares invalid number of
> >>parameters. I'm sure this can be avoided, but how? Again, I know it sounds
> >
> >If you're using DOS 5.0, try using doskey to alias the copy command to call
> >your batch file which is called something beside copy.bat.
> >for example:
> >     DOSKEY copy=copy2 $1 $2
> 
> My freshman year, we did something like this to a friend's computer
> by using DEBUG to change the name the DIR command in COMMAND.COM to
> DXR (or whatever), and then creating a hidden batch file in the
> path called "DIR.BAT" that contained one line:
>  
> @DIR C:\
> 
> so that whenever he did a DIR, he only saw the contents of the root
> directory.  It was quite funny.  Anyway, you could change the COPY
> command in a similar manner, albeit this is not a general solution
> to the problem.

I did something similar a while back using Norton's Disk Editor and modifying
CD (in command.com) to ZZ and then used a program called Led's Change Directory
(LCD) (renamed to CD on my system).  This way whne I typed CD I had the 
'smart' change directory program try to match the closest directory to what
I typed.  It was quite useful.

Greg

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