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NP - Nosy Prompter
by Russell Nelson
Copyright 1988 By Russell Nelson. Don't try to make money off of it, and
don't pretend that you wrote it.
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 800 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 3.x. Versions of DOS prior to 3.x didn't save the name of the program
in the environment where NP looks for it.
Bugs, enhancements, kudos to:
Russell Nelson
Snail: 11 Grant St., Potsdam, NY 13676
Compu$erve: 70441,205
GEnie: BH01
Internet: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu
BITNET: NELSON@CLUTX
UUCP: uunet!clutx.clarkson.edu!nelson
Fido/Opus: Russ Nelson@1:260/360