To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Displaying volumename in prompt
Message-ID: <19961225.134311.4743.2.chambersb@juno.com>
References: <5974bk$j7e$2 AT tornix DOT tornado DOT be> 
From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 16:38:43 EST


On Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:13:32 -0600 "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
writes:
>On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Joe Wright wrote:
>> Colin W. Glenn wrote:
>> > Yes there is, and it does involve escape sequences, I did that a 
>long
>> 
>> 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.
>
>Actually, I wouldn't mind a MSDOS equivalment of MSDOS.  I mean, with 
>the
>machines we have now, you could convince the system to fold every bit 
>of
>memory under the 1meg mark.  That means that every application would 
>be
>able to load and run, one on top of the other.
>
>
Two questions:
1)	An MSDOS version of MSDOS?
2)	Would this be with unlimited segments or something?  How else
would it 'fold'?