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Article #7469Re: question on spawning DOS from C prog
From: Wolfgang Siebeck
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 10:50
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 10:50
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jmt7@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOHN M. TROIANO) writes: >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? In your function declare something like: static char prompt[]="PROMPT=<Type EXIT to return to program>$_$_$P"; and before the spawnl() do a putenv(prompt); to get exactly what you want. Greetings, Wolfgang -- siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)
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