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- From: adam@micromuse.co.uk (Adam Kerrison)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: question on spawning DOS from C prog
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 13:01:36 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.212229.57639@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- In article 57639@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu, jmt7@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOHN M. TROIANO) writes:
- >
- > For example, after spawning DOS the user would
- > see:
- >
- > <Type EXIT to return to program> <--this would appear
- > each time <RET> hit
- > C:\
- >
- > Is there, perhaps, a parameter to COMMAND.COM to do this?
-
- I dont think so. You can do this by setting the prompt correctly. I don't think
- you can have a newline in a prompt so you would need lots of spaces (a bit wasteful
- but such is DOS :-) ). Try something like this:
-
- PROMPT=Type EXIT to return to program {.. lots of spaces ..} $p$g
-
- >
- > - John
- Adam
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