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" 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'?