question on spawning DOS from C prog

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From: JOHN M. TROIANO
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 21:22

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    Hi, I have written an application (using Borland C) which spawns
DOS upon request by the user (using spawnl). Everything works great
but I would like to display a reminder to the user with each DOS prompt
so he does'nt forget he is in a spawned DOS process (similar to way
Word Perfect does this). For example, after spawning DOS the user would
see:

            <Type EXIT to return to program>      <--this would appear
                                                     each time <RET> hit
            C:\

    Is there, perhaps, a parameter to COMMAND.COM to do this?

                                                - John

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From: jmt7@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOHN M. TROIANO)
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Subject: question on spawning DOS from C prog
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Date: 5 Jan 93 21:22:29 GMT
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