sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu (06/20/91)
I am currently writing a slew of utilities to make my DOS system look like UNIX. And before you say "Use 4DOS!!!!" -- I tried. 4DOS won't work with BOOTCON.SYS. Besides, I like sticking to a standard command interpreter, purist that I am. :-) Anyway, so far I have obtained an RM, DOSEDIT, am writing CHMOD, just finished writing LS, will eventually port AWK, rewrite GREP based on Turbo-GREP, and am using SWITCHAR as found in the UnDocumented DOS book (GOOD book). Now that I can use the '-' character as a command line switch for DOS, and now that I can use the '/' to change directories, I would like to know if there is a way for me to change the prompt so that instead of: C> SET PROMPT $P$G C:\UTIL\EUNUCHS> I can get the following: C:/util/eunuchs> I don't believe that I can use normal DOS calls, since the prompt is controlled by the current command interpreter, in my case COMMAND.COM (DOS 3.30). Any suggestions? Brian /* Brian Hook -- MS-DOS Programmer for Contract ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Seamus, that's my dog...I saw her today at the reception...sorry, sixTEEN inches....better save the women and children first...but this one goes to 11! ..anymore of that plutonium nyborg?....there can be only ONE!....like a finger pointing to the moon....ease the seat back...one day closer to death */
dhf@marie.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) (06/21/91)
. The supplier of 4DOS, J.P. Software, now has a utility like BOOTCON which (to my knowledge) is compatible with 4DOS. At CONFIG time, it puts up a menu that allows you to choose between different configurations. I don't have the info in front of me, but it was written by a Swiss and its name is BOOT.SYS or something similar.