Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/22/15:23:28
Colin W. Glenn wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Jan Op de Beeck wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me how I can manage to include the volumename of the
> > I assume it must have something to do with the use of escape
>
> Yes there is, and it does involve escape sequences, I did that a long
> while ago, and I don't remember exactly how I did that, but I trashed that
> idea because every time the prompt popped up, it caused a disk access as
> DOS required a verification that the Volume was still the same!
Using the volume name in place of the idiotic C: designator would please
me no end. Assuming we are all playing some flavor of MSDOS (why djgpp
otherwise?), one of us, some of us or all of us ought to write shell.com
to replace (and eliminate for all time) COMMAND.COM forever.
- Raw text -