Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!aplcomm!uunet!mcsun!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!lorien!aidan From: A.C.G.Saunders@newcastle.ac.uk (Aidan Saunders) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Disabling DOS internal commands ? Message-ID: <1991Jan23.120842.3032@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 23 Jan 91 12:08:42 GMT Sender: news@newcastle.ac.uk Organization: Chemical & Process Engineering Dept, University of Newcastle, UK. Lines: 20 Is there any way of disabling DOS internal commands ? Alternatively can DOS be persuaded to execute a program of the same name as a DOS internal command without explicitly specifying a path ? The question arises because I am wondering how we could 'persuade' users to use Vcopy - the copy program from McAffee Associates that checks for viruses in the files it copies. Obviously this can be used by running it as vcopy - but undergrads being what they are will not bother to read notices or remember to specify 'vcopy' instead of 'copy'. So - how could we arrange for vcopy to be invoked when the user says copy ? Any ideas ? Aidan -- ---------------------------------------------- ARPA :: a.c.g.saunders@newcastle.ac.uk UUCP :: ...!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!a.c.g.saunders ----------------------------------------------