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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: v01i080: np, shell to DOS indicator
Date: 1 Feb 89 13:00:37 GMT
Summary: np.arc, shell to DOS indicator
Approved: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
Posting-number: Volume 01 Issue 080
Originally-from: Russ Nelson <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Submitted-by: Russ Nelson <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Archive-name: np/np100.uue
[ This archive includes an NP.DSC file, a proposed standard file for
archives containing free software. It includes a 40-character
description (see above in the Subject heading) and a 10-line longer
description (below). -- R.D. ]
All too often I have shelled out to DOS from a program only to forget
that I had done so. Then I run the program again, which results in a
severe lack of memory, or, in the case of communication programs, can
drop the current session. So, I wrote NP.COM, which tells me which, if
any, program I have shelled to DOS from.
Russ Nelson <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
[
NP stands for Noisy Prompter. Alas, NP won't happily co-exist with
CED. I'm sure Russ Nelson will eventually come through with a revised
version that does. Assembly language source is included. NP worked
without CED resident. Shelling to MS-DOS from Kermit made the prompt
show [KERMIT]. BRIEF, however, does something funny that makes the
prompt appear only sporadically.
-- R.D.
]