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FREE SHELL
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For directory navigation, file managing and copying or deleting
by groups, PC MAGAZINE'S three free utilities, RN, DR, CO are
great in my opinion. The following procedure will improve their
speed and ease of use by creating a small 13k ram disk which is
loaded up automatically by your autoexec.bat file. The Ansi.sys
driver will be used to redefine five function keys for single
keystroke operation at the DOS prompt.
F6 will cause the screen to clear
F7 will call CO
F8 will execute a dos directory listing
F9 will call RN
F10 will call DR
These directions assume you have one hard disk "C", your DOS version
contains the VDISK driver or a similiar substitute and you have a
directory called DOS where the external commands and drivers are
located. The procedure can be easily altered for use on dual floppy
systems.
1. Copy these utilities to your DOS directory.
DR.COM VOL.6 NUMBER 14
RN.COM " " " 16
CO.COM " " " 21
2. Add the following lines to your config.sys file.
DEVICE C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
DEVICE C:\DOS\VDISK.SYS 13 128 6
BUFFERS = 20
3. Add the following lines to your autoexec.bat file.
ECHO ON
PROMPT $e[0;64;"CLS";13p
PROMPT $e[0;65;"D:\CO";13p
PROMPT $e[0;66;"DIR";13p
PROMPT $e[0;67;"D:\RN";13p
PROMPT $e[0;68;"D:\DR";13p
ECHO OFF
CLS
PATH D:\;C:\ { add normal path statement }
PROMPT $P$G { or normal prompt statement }
COPY C:\DOS\RN.COM D: > NUL
COPY C:\DOS\DR.COM D: > NUL
COPY C:\DOS\CO.COM D: > NUL
C:\DOS\RN C:/I
CLS
4. Now do a Ctrl-Alt-Del and try it out, it should make about
80% of what you do at the dos prompt much easier. The reason
I like this method is you can customize it to your own needs,
try putting in your most common batch files or favorite utilities.
For an excellant discussion of the Ansi driver and redefining
function keys from a com file you make with Debug see the Public
Domain file USEANSI.ARC by C. Scott Giles.
Enjoy,
Patrick O. Gallagher
Seattle, WA.