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* T A K E C O M M A N D *
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* (C) Copywrite 1986-89 Release 3.00 *
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* If you find this program useful or use it on a *
* regular basis you are asked to register for $10. *
* For your registration you will recieve the latest *
* release and be notified of any new releases. *
* *
* Cary Kolker SYSOP Niu Connection *
* 501 Suburban Apts. Data (815)753-1800 *
* De Kalb, IL 60115 Voice (815)753-9515 *
* Nodes 1&2 3,12,2400 *
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This TSR will provide you with the ability to bridge a gap that
I feel was left open by the designers of DOS. I have used a number
of main-frame and mini-computers and all of these systems have
the ability for you to define your commands as a series of
commands. I have spent some time recently adding a number of
features and I hope that you will find it as indespensiable
as I have. With your support of $10 I will send you the latest
version and keep you informed of any further versions. I would
appreciate any and all comments or suggestions and if you like
I can customize it for your needs. ie. I can remove the resident
help screen (which comsumes 1280 bytes) or I can increase or
decrease the number of allowable symbols (each symbol requires
144 bytes).
Other than the resident help screen (which defines most commands)
I must tell you about all the features of the symbols.
1). The basic symbol definition is: N = CLS
This is defined by entering: DF N = CLS
2). The next feature is the ability to use positional parameter
substitution similar to the DOS batch files.
LIST = TYPE %1
You may use parameters from %1 thru %9, each parameter is
seperated by a space. (the next version will allow you to
use parameters with imbedded spaces.
3). Finally you may define a symbol as a series of DOS commands
by seperating each command for the symbol by double tildes "~~".
I removed the use of the character 217 as the seperator because
of conflicts with DesqView (Tm. QuarterDeck Office Systems.).
ie. MAKECOM = MASM %1,,NUL;~~LINK %1;~~EXE2BIN %1.EXE %1.COM
If you must terminate the command chaining sequence you must
use the CTRL-BREAK key, a CTRL-C will not stop it but it will
abort the current command.
If you do use this regularly I would really apperciate your support
so that I may further advance the functionality of this program.
This program was completely written in assembler and has been debuged
as completely as many years of testing and regular use by myself will
provide. The only thing which I consider a problem is that when used
with AT class or above computers you will have to press enter once
after loading the program otherwise if the next command after loading
is a symbol then it will not be recognized.
ONE IMPORTANT NOTE: This does not function in DOS batch files and
symbols substitution only will take place at
the DOS level. ie. If you are in WORDSTAR
and want to shell out to run a symbol you
must enter for the command to run from WS
"COMMAND", this will load a secondary command
processor and then you may use symbols. After
you are done then just enter "EXIT" to return
to WORDSTAR.
Your symbol file may be loaded from a directory
or filename other than the default by adding the
path and filename to the command line when loading
TAKECOMM into memory. The default path and file-
name is C:\SYMBOLS.SAV.
New for version 3.00:
Command chaining character was changed to a double tilde
to avoid conflict with DesqView.
Command was added to allow TAKECOMM to be removed from
memory given it was the last TSR loaded.
Coming Soon in next release:
Wildcards will be allowed for the readonly and readwrite
commands. And if I get the time I will try to write a
move file(s) and if I have alot of time or incentive a
move directory(s) command.