From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Displaying volumename in prompt
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:13:32 -0600
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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.