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Subject: Re: Command.com and a message
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Date: 5 Dec 90 12:21:01 GMT
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In article <67560@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, kwgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Karol W Gieszczykiewicz) says:
>
>
>        Greetings. I am a C programmer with a bit of 8088 assembly
>        "fooling around". I am writing a program that has to load
>        command.com (shell). It works, but I want it to display
>        a little message that reminds the user of what they did.
>        (just so they don't run my program again, instead of "exit"-
>        ing back to it).
>
>        I know it's possible because WordPerfect does it. Every time
>        one presses <enter>, after exiting to shell, a short message
>        appears, telling the user to type "exit" to return to
>        WP. I want to know how to chain in such a message. I don't
>        mind creating a modified copy of command.com and then running
>        it.
>
>        Anyone?
>
>        Take care. I will summarize.

You don't need to do that. Before loading command.com, 

    ...
    putenv("prompt=\"Exit\" to return to <progname>$_%%prompt%%");
    ...

You may not need the formatting commands, this is just off the top of my head. 
If they are not needed, change \" to just " and %% to %. This should give you a
prompt of:

"Exit" to return to <progname>
C:\>

at every prompt. 

Carl Schelin
tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu