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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Disabling DOS internal commands ?
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Date: 25 Jan 91 06:01:47 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.120842.3032@newcastle.ac.uk>
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A.C.G.Saunders@newcastle.ac.uk (Aidan Saunders) writes:

> 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 ?

Under 4dos, you can remove or rename any built-in. In fact, I have
renamed the resident 'list' to 'look', and redirected 'list' to point to
LIST.COM. 4dos can be told to use upper-case, and generally look just
about like command.com.
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