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Article #7092Re: Disabling DOS internal commands ?
From: Roy M. Silvernail
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 1991 06:01
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 1991 06:01
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A.C.G.Saunders@newcastle.ac.uk (Aidan Saunders) writes:
> Is there any way of disabling DOS internal commands ? Alternatively
> can DOS be persuaded to execute a program of the same name as a DOS
> internal command without explicitly specifying a path ?
Under 4dos, you can remove or rename any built-in. In fact, I have
renamed the resident 'list' to 'look', and redirected 'list' to point to
LIST.COM. 4dos can be told to use upper-case, and generally look just
about like command.com.
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