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GROWP v1.5 Copyright (C) 1988-1993 by Gary S. Tessler, P.E.
All Rights Reserved.
If you like this shareware program, a single-user contribution of $19
would be appreciated. Multi-user/site licenses are available upon request.
Send check or money order, and any ideas for enhancements to:
Tessler's Nifty Tools (TNT)
430 Canyon Woods Place Suite A
San Ramon, Ca. 94583
CompuServ: 71044,542
This resident program requires about 1200 bytes of resident RAM to add a
default '>' or user entered growth character to the environment's
'PROMPT' string each time another copy of COMMAND.COM is shelled and to
remove the growth character when the copy of COMMAND.COM is terminated.
GROWP requires DOS version 3.0 or higher.
Each growth character represents a suspended program in RAM and gives you a
visual warning that you should not turn-off your PC before returning to
the suspended program and gracefully exiting it. This author recommends
using character 002 (dark happy face) as your growth character.
This program is meant to be useful in situations where you invoke COMMAND.COM
from within Windows, a word-processor or from within a spreadsheet. In this
typical scenario, GROWP gives you a visual reminder that you have
suspended -not terminated a critical program.
CALLING SYNTAX: GROWP [x]
where x is the optional character to expand into the PROMPT.
If 'x' is not entered, then the '>' character will be used.
Before installing this program, you must include via a SET DOS
command,the string "GROWP=XXX" where 'X' may be any character. An 'X'
character must exist for each expected nested PROMPT growth. For example, if
you plan to shell no more than 6 consecutive levels of COMMAND.COM (at the
most) and therefore grow the prompt 6 times, you MUST include 6 'X'
characters. Do not include any spaces in your 'GROWP=' command.
For example: 'SET GROWP=XXXXXX' is valid
'SET GROWP= XXXXXX' is not valid
'SET GROWP = XXXXXX' is not valid
'SET GROWP =XXXXXX' is not valid
Thank you.