Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 07:13:08 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Mr M S Aitchison <physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz>
cc: OpenDOS AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: YESCHAR
In-Reply-To: <199704020543.RAA03558@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Mr M S Aitchison wrote:

> 
> 1. I'd like to see commands like PUSH YesChar and POP YesChar for
>     batch files so that regions of the batch file can temporarily
>     change environment variables and pseudo-variables.
> 2. I'd also like to see the ability to set the switchar, yeschar for
>     different tasks separately. (Not sure if SwitchChar can be set
>     other than on  a system-wide basis; I guess that other characters
>     proposed such as YesChar, FileChar would be set/obtained by similar
>     DOS calls  that store bytes in some global RAM??)
> 3. It is probably a good idea not to quote too much of an original message;
>     I've probably gone too far the other way in quoting none! ;-)

This is really getting ridiculous!  Is this just a joke?  If
serious, then I want a french version of "shutdown" so that I can
type "shutdown -r maintenant" instead of "shutdown -r now"  And
I'd like a 100k driver to be present in the kernel to support
switching between 80 different languages too.  That way we could
have a french EXECAUTO.BAT and SYSTEME.CNF instead of CONFIG.SYS,
then we could rename all of the standard commands names to be
their language specific translations.  Then we could implement
10000000000000000 new environment variables to make batch files
"compatible" with the old "silly" method.  Hey, don't forget the
ARABIC version, that way they don't need to turn the monitor
upside down.  Oh, also after all of these changes are done, we'd
need a toll free sanity hotline to handle all of the poor souls
who try to actually use the bloated silly mess.


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