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Article #7572Re: question on spawning DOS from C prog
From: Stephen R. Phillips
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 17:22
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 17:22
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Adam Kerrison (adam@micromuse.co.uk) wrote: : I dont think so. You can do this by setting the prompt correctly. I don't think : you can have a newline in a prompt so you would need lots of spaces (a bit wasteful : but such is DOS :-) ). Try something like this: Eh this is untrue here is a breif summary of 3.2's available prompt escape sequences. $t - time $d - date $p - working dir $v - version $n - drive $g - '>' $l - '<' $b - '|' $_ - newline $s - space $e - 0x1b :') Cyberman -- This is my sig file! Read rec.games.programer!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!ukma!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!ub!exucom.com!cyberman From: cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: question on spawning DOS from C prog Message-ID: <1993Jan9.172257.10119@exucom.com> Date: 9 Jan 93 17:22:57 GMT References: <C0Fo6p.CCM@micromuse.co.uk> Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc. Lines: 17 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]