People have been asking for DOS utility programs. We haven't published very many of them lately because our current graphic and interface standards have evolved beyond the primitive text-mode, command-line-based interfaces of most utilities. In the early, hacker-dominated age of the personal computer, we could get away with publishing lots of command line utilities (some of which I'm still personally using even now), but not these days.
But some users still want utilities, a demand we haven't been able to satisfy within our present standards... until now. Prompt Editor is a new twist on the concept of a "command line utility"; rather than running from the DOS command line, it lets you redefine what your DOS command line prompt looks like!
You know what the DOS prompt is. Even if you're one of the and new breed of PC users who spends most of your time in graphical interfaces like Windows, the DOS Shell, or graphical software like Softdisk PC, you do occasionally have to bring up a DOS command prompt to run programs or commands that you don't have a menu for. The prompt comes up for most people looking like "C>", a plain boring indicator of which drive they are currently on. Or, maybe, whoever set up your system for you put in a more sophisticated prompt, showing the time, date, DOS version, current directory, or other information. Maybe more information than you actually need, and you would prefer a less unwieldy prompt on every line. But you're not really sure how to change it; anything that involves altering AUTOEXEC.BAT puts you in a state of panic.
That's what Prompt Editor is here for. It's a VGA program written to our full Softdisk PC standards of interface and appearance, and designed to be user-friendly. It lets you custom-select the and different items available in DOS command line prompts, and pick which of them you'd like in your own prompt and in what order. You see the prompt develop as you make changes on the and screen. And when you're finished, you can save the results into your system's bootup file so that your new prompt will be used every time you boot your PC in the future.
Use Prompt Editor to customize your DOS screen to add personality to your system or to present the information you like to know while you're working in DOS. Who said that system customization options were only for Windows users (who have their bitmaps and screen-savers). Here's a neat feature only available in DOS!
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