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The prompts.exe program displays the current path in the upper right corner of
your current screen. I have always found that displaying the path by using
the DOS Prompt command to be annoying, (any psychology student out there want
to probe that one?), and wrote this program to fulfil the needs of my superior
(who likes the full path display using the prompt command) while removing my
own personal tastes against using the prompt command. I install prompts by
placing the following two commands in my autoexec.bat file:
prompts >nul [Throws away signon message]
prompt $g [REDUCES dos prompt to just a > symbol]
Of course, prompts.exe must be in the current directory or in the path state-
ment. (Memory usage for TSR is 1536 bytes.)
When the current drive is a floppy (Drive A: or B:), I have reduced the number
of times the screen is refreshed because of the annoying dos call that accesses
the drive to find out the current path. When the drive is not A: or B:, the
screen refreshes normally (about once a second, for diskette drives, about
every ten seconds.)
The path is not displayed when running a program, except some TSR's-like
SideKick-path is displayed while the TSR is in the foreground. An unexpected,
but desirable (undocumented?) feature.
Note that you can see what is underneath the path by holding down both shift
keys at the same time.
Feel free to distribute the program, with this document, without charge (except
for the media.)
Direct any comments, thousand dollar bills, etc. to:
Daniel K. Hollis
CS: 73026.3013