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From: moconnor@mars.acs.oakland.edu (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Terminal Program without shell to DOS
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Date: 27 Sep 90 11:10:25 GMT
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In article: <1990Sep26.234146.7123@cs.wmich.edu>,
degraaf@cs.wmich.edu (Kip Degraaf) writes:

| Could anyone point me to a terminal program that doesn't allow
| shelling to DOS?  I have a need to allow people to dial out
| from a machine at work, but I have everything else they do on a strict
| menu and they have no access to DOS.  But adding a regular comm program
| like Qmodem is out of the question.

Invoke your menu with a batch file with the following line in it:

set comspec=

This will insure that DOS's COMMAND.COM will not be found.  

Of course, you may want to inform people that there will be
unpredictable effects (a.k.a. crashes, most likely) if trying to shell
to DOS.

					...Mike




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