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- From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
- Subject: v01i080: np, shell to DOS indicator
- Date: 1 Feb 89 13:00:37 GMT
- Summary: np.arc, shell to DOS indicator
- Approved: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
-
- Posting-number: Volume 01 Issue 080
- Originally-from: Russ Nelson <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
- Submitted-by: Russ Nelson <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
- Archive-name: np/np100.uue
-
- [ This archive includes an NP.DSC file, a proposed standard file for
- archives containing free software. It includes a 40-character
- description (see above in the Subject heading) and a 10-line longer
- description (below). -- R.D. ]
-
- All too often I have shelled out to DOS from a program only to forget
- that I had done so. Then I run the program again, which results in a
- severe lack of memory, or, in the case of communication programs, can
- drop the current session. So, I wrote NP.COM, which tells me which, if
- any, program I have shelled to DOS from.
-
- Russ Nelson <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
-
- [
- NP stands for Noisy Prompter. Alas, NP won't happily co-exist with
- CED. I'm sure Russ Nelson will eventually come through with a revised
- version that does. Assembly language source is included. NP worked
- without CED resident. Shelling to MS-DOS from Kermit made the prompt
- show [KERMIT]. BRIEF, however, does something funny that makes the
- prompt appear only sporadically.
-
- -- R.D.
- ]
-