At one point I had ansi.sys installed and did all sorts of stuff with jazzy prompts. On my systems now I always add “@echo off”, the prompt command above, a modified PATH, install Norton Commander and “reboot.com”. Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 10:01 PM To: Evan Koblentz Cc: Dean Notarnicola; vcf-midatlantic Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Help with installing 1980s DOS program $p$g was pretty standard at the time. It was very helpful when navigating through the directory structure. On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 9:49 PM Evan Koblentz <evan@vcfed.org> wrote:
It displays the current path in the C: prompt e.g. C:\DOS
Oh, okay.
No need for that.
On Mon, May 13, 2019, 9:47 PM Dean Notarnicola <dnotarnicola@gmail.com> wrote:
It displays the current path in the C: prompt e.g. C:\DOS
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 9:43 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
PROMPT $P$G
What is that part?
On Mon, May 13, 2019, 9:40 PM Ethan O'Toole <telmnstr@757.org> wrote:
Now all I need to do is edit (autoexec.bat?) with a path line, if fuzzy college memory serves me correctly, in order for this to work right from c:\.
If dos is in C:\DOS:
PATH=C:\DOS;C:\yourprogram;etc PROMPT $P$G
It's amazing how much we forget about things we grew up using and hacking around on everyday!
Apparently lawyers were big on DOS era word processors (Word Perfect) because of forms they have where they fill in items and it populates them or something. The same thing exists of course in modern systems but change is hard and not always better.
- Ethan