degraaf@cs.wmich.edu (Kip Degraaf) (09/27/90)
Could anyone point me to a terminal program that doesn't allow shelling to DOS? I have a need to allow people to dial out from a machine at work, but I have everything else they do on a strict menu and they have no access to DOS. But adding a regular comm program like Qmodem is out of the question. Any suggestions please?
moconnor@mars.acs.oakland.edu (Mike O'Connor) (09/27/90)
In article: <1990Sep26.234146.7123@cs.wmich.edu>, degraaf@cs.wmich.edu (Kip Degraaf) writes: | Could anyone point me to a terminal program that doesn't allow | shelling to DOS? I have a need to allow people to dial out | from a machine at work, but I have everything else they do on a strict | menu and they have no access to DOS. But adding a regular comm program | like Qmodem is out of the question. Invoke your menu with a batch file with the following line in it: set comspec= This will insure that DOS's COMMAND.COM will not be found. Of course, you may want to inform people that there will be unpredictable effects (a.k.a. crashes, most likely) if trying to shell to DOS. ...Mike -- -- moconnor@argo.acs.oakland.edu Internet -- moconnor@oakland Bitnet -- ...!uunet!umich!egrunix!moconnor UUCP --
roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (09/28/90)
degraaf@cs.wmich.edu (Kip Degraaf) writes: > Could anyone point me to a terminal program that doesn't allow > shelling to DOS? How much capability do you need? There is a TTY program supplied with the BNU Fossil driver that simply turns the screen and keyboard into a totally dumb terminal. Used with NANSI.SYS, it seems to be reasonably VT-100 compliant, and it has 2 whole commands: clear screen and exit program. -- Roy M. Silvernail |+| roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu |+| #define opinions ALL_MINE; main(){float x=1;x=x/50;printf("It's only $%.2f, but it's my $%.2f!\n",x,x);} "This is cyberspace." -- Peter da Silva :--: "...and I like it here!" -- me