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From: ekalenda@cup.portal.com (Edward John Kalenda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: yeah, how DO you do that?
Message-ID: <43419@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 05:00:00 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.045652.21497@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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>Here is an interesting post from comp.compression.  I would be interested
>in creating the same effect.  Does anyone know how I might be able to do
>so in Turbo Pascal (or ASM)?
>
>While I am at it, a friend has shown me something else quite curious
>and I have told him I would try to find out what is going on. . .
>
>Some programs have something embeded in them so that if you "type"
>them, they will display the program name and the material will stop
>scrolling on the screen and the DOS prompt will appear again.
>
>e.g.
>
>C:> type program.exe
>
>The Software
>(c) 19xx The Software Co.
>
>C:>

What you need to do is create an object file with the text string and link
it ahead of all others. The string ends with a ^Z so TYPE will treat it as
end-of-file.

This assembly source should do it for SMALL model MSC programs. Change and
experiment for others:

_TEXT	SEGMENT

	DB	'Program name go here',13,10
	DB	'More text here',13,10
	DB	26

_TEXT	ENDS

Ed
ekalenda@cup.portal.com