Hi, you may remember syseecho (show a string, but replace $ signs by the ESCAPE character), which is now available through EECHO in config sys (if you use a recent FreeDOS kernel - my initial kernel implementation was, alas, broken: it sent the text to BIOS instead of to CON, so ANSI had no effect...).
Now there is a slight variant: SYSDELAY. http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/syseecho-sysdelay.zip Usage example: DEVICE=...sysdelay... one$two$$three$$$ Will print the word one on screen, wait 1 second, then two, wait 2 seconds... in other words: SYSDELAY shows a string and waits 1 second whenever it encounters a $ sign. The $ sign is not shown on screen. Might be useful for inserting delays in config sys, to give people more time to read things like CD-ROM drive name which would otherwise scroll away too fast. For "wait until keypress", Tyler recommends BOOTUTIL sys, probably some Swiss army knife toolkit in a sys. SYSDELAY only has "wait N seconds". Bootutil is by Douglas Boling, according to Tyler. Happy googling. If you do not find it, ask Tyler by mail... freedos123 (yahoo.com), that is. Or probably it is in: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/confix.zip Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
