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From: ZCCBJSB%EB0UB011.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Josep Sau B.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Patching a process in prompt
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Date: 14 Jan 91 14:26:07 GMT
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Has anyone any idea/code to achieve that every time system
PROMPT appears a program gets called before?

I have thought of doing some patch in COMMAND.COM just before
the code that emits system PROMPT, or some resident program
that intercepts it and executes the external program just before
PROMPT is emitted.

The program objective is to emit a different sentence before every
system PROMPT. These sentences should be chosen randomly from
a text file on disk by the program.

The idea is taken from a program called FORTUNE, that is accessible
in TRICKLE at <MSDOS.SYSUTL>4TUNE.ZIP by L.Favaro.
This program chooses a sentence and inserts it in system PROMPT,
but just ONCE.

Any pertinent answer very welcome.

--Josep Sau B. <ZCCBJSB@EB0UB011>
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