Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!chalmers.se!afs-news!hus.chalmers.se!dahlstr From: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Command.com and a message Message-ID: <1990Dec15.183906.7594@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se> Date: 15 Dec 90 18:39:06 GMT References: <67560@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Sender: news@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se (News System) Reply-To: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom) Organization: Chalmers University of Technology Lines: 34 In article <67560@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, kwgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Karol W Gieszczykiewicz) writes: |> |> 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 , 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. WordPerfect have a "nice" solution they change the prompt! So just change the environment variable prompt to look like this: set prompt=Type EXIT to return But you shold do this in your program i dont know wich language you are writing in, but in C it is simpel, use setenv funtion. =============================================================================== Gunnar Dahlstrom Chalmers University of Technology Div. Building Technology 412 96 Gothenbourg, Sveden E-Mail: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se ===============================================================================