From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Displaying volumename in prompt
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 20:55:39 -0800
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Joe Wright wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Shouldn't SMARTDRV in read cache mode eliminate the time needed to
search the volume label?

As for COMMAND.COM, you may want to talk to the Caldera folks who are
doing OpenDOS about their revisions to the DOS source code.  Although I
did talk to one user recently who said that OpenDOS still displays the
same buggy DPMI that Novell DOS 7 did, making it necessary to turn off
the DPMI to run DJGPP programs...

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