Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!xrtll!silver From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: shelling to Dos Message-ID: <1990Dec29.001416.23413@xrtll.uucp> Date: 29 Dec 90 00:14:16 GMT References: <1990Dec24.012958.9228@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <1990Dec25.024222.13265@xrtll.uucp> <52979@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver) Organization: Not around here, pal! Lines: 12 In article abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) writes: $The big problem is that there is no way to prevent the user from $looking at the COMSPEC variable BEFORE starting the application. The original poster asked for how to do it from a menu program; depending on the menu software, it may indeed be possible to prevent the user from looking at COMSPEC. -- __ __ _ | ...!nexus.yorku.edu!xrtll!silver | always (__ | | | | |_ |_) >----------------------------------< searching __) | |_ \/ |__ | \ | if you don't like my posts, type | for _____________________/ find / -print|xargs cat|compress | SNTF