On Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:38:49 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
<snip>
>> [place all on one line in autoexec.bat]
>> prompt=This program cannot co-exist on the same hard drive as Microsoft
> Windows.
>> Please re-format drive C: and try again. $p$g
> That's a nice prompt Glenn, and a really great idea, but not what I had in
> mind when I said: "the greatest piece of software ever written".
> What if there was a program (or OS) that was *SO* fantastic/useful/useable
> that everyone in the world absolutely _had_ to have it !!
> Then the message has effective meaning. <G>
OOOOHHHH, you mean something like Arachne ??? ;-)
---system\dgi\dosshel.bat---
@echo off
set oldpmt=%prompt%
if exist ppp.log set prompt=This program cannot co-exist on the same hard
drive as Microsoft Windows. Please re-format drive C: and try again. $p$g
if (%COMSPEC%)==() goto nocomspec
%COMSPEC% /E:512
goto end
:nocomspec
COMMAND.COM /E:512
:end
set prompt=%oldpmt%
set oldpmt=
%1
cd %1system
cd ..
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