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From: ggl@mhuxi.UUCP (LASKARIS)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro
Subject: Re: help with DOS command.com
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 14:23:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 14:23:03 1985
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Dan Reynolds, at Illinois Institute of Technology, asks:
> Can anyone tell me if it's possible to patch or modify command.com to accept
> a command that will transfer control to a program which has been made
> resident and attached itself to DOS, much the way that Ctl-Alt invokes
> Sidekick. ...
We are using a public domain program called CED (Command EDitor), which 
captures all the commands you type and allows you to cycle back through them
using the arrow keys.  This is something like ksh, but easier to use.

The reason this comes up here is that the author has devised a way of
appending to his own list of commands dynamically.  He gives a small example
in assembler which loads and stays resident, and grafts its own command name
onto the CED list.

This is not a direct solution to the problem, since:
	1) the CED program is needed; it recognizes the commands, not
	   COMMAND.COM
	2) the memory-resident program knows about CED as well.


CED may be found on various bulletin boards; if requests come in, I will
attempt a uuencoded version.

David Laurance
AT&T International
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