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- From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: A batch programming contest for you
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:23:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.022338.16416@zooid.guild.org>
- References: <1992Aug18.052017.3758@uwasa.fi> <1992Aug19.065119.10003@cs.ubc.ca>
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- yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Yossi Gil) writes:
- >My trick is to create
- > shell=command.com /p nul line in my config.sys file. This will
- >make command.com start with the nul device as its standard
- >input/output. It is undocumented, but worked in all of the many dos
- >versions I have tried it on.
-
- It's documented in the MS-DOS 5.0 manual.
-
- > <NUL> con ver
-
- >not mentioning
- >
- > if not if == not shift else ; endif
- >
- >These may prove useful to encrypt your batch files.
-
- Encrypt? Try lightly obfuscated, you're not going to fool many
- people with above tricks, not for long at least.
-
- Ross Ridge
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