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- NP - Nosy Prompter
- by Russell Nelson
-
-
- The program is copyrighted but freely copyable using the Free
- Software Foundation's General Public License. That means that anyone
- you give it to can give it to someone else, and they must be able to
- get the source. The license is widely available, usually called
- COPYING. Contact me if you can't find a copy.
-
- Have you ever shelled to DOS from an application program only to forget
- that you had done so, and you ran your application again? This can
- result in a lack of memory to run the application, or if you have shelled
- from an editor, you can lose changes to a file, or if you have shelled
- from a communications package, you can lose your session and even be forced
- to reboot.
-
- I've done it myself. I've done it enough times to do something about
- it by writing NP, the Nosy Prompter. NP will peek around in your memory
- to find suspended programs, and it will remind you of them at every
- DOS prompt. NP is written in assembly language, and only takes 900 bytes
- when resident. Source is included and the program is freely copyable.
-
- Unfortunately, in order to find the name of the program, NP requires
- DOS 4.x. Versions of DOS prior to 4.x didn't save the name of the program
- in the memory control blocks where NP looks for it.
-
- Bugs, enhancements, kudos to:
-
- Russell Nelson
- Crynwr Software
- 11 Grant St.
- Potsdam, NY 13676
- 315-268-1925 voice
- 315-268-9201 FAX
- nelson@crynwr.com
-