Very Computer

 k Free $_$D $T$_$P$G

 The above should be entered on a single line without space between ,K]k

 Perhaps you 4DOS users can give us your own variations on this theme.

 Regards,

 Martin

:  k Free $_$D $T$_$P$G

:  The above should be entered on a single line without space between ,K]k

:  Perhaps you 4DOS users can give us your own variations on this theme.

:  Regards,

:  Martin

Here's my prompt if it is worth anything.....

PROMPT=$e[s$e[1;1f$e[0;44;37;1m$e[K%%_dos %%_dosver [$z, %%_win, %%?]

$t$e[u$e[0m$e[32;40m$p$e[35;40m$G$e[37;40m

I really like mine, anyone out there want to share theirs??

Raymond Chi

: On the subject of prompts, I believe Tony Nugent has my PromptFromHell in
: his collection [Tony, you want the current version?]. Here's what it
: looks like, in one color (the original has seven colors):

: Junk is the stuff we throw away; stuff is the junk we keep
: [Tue, 09-06-94 - 00:40:25] [C 3483K] [D 2410K] [E 2K] [F 311K]                  
: [4DOS 4.01D MSDOS 5.0a] [Mem 531K] [Shell: 1] C:\                              
: D:\TM4>                                                                      

: The first line uses the %exec[] function to put up a random tagline every
: time the prompt is displayed. Time and available disk/memory space are
: also updated on evey display.

My prompt, which is posted earlier, saves current cursor position, then
goto top of screen, clear line 1, paste line 1 with blue, and prints the
follow information on bright white

DOS 6.20 [0, 0, 0] 610k Conv, 4000k XMS, 1000k EMS        date and time

then restores cursor position and prints current directory in one color
and > in another color, finally, back to white for input....

I prefer the info on top rather than with the prompt. It gives me a
feeling of the good old DOS prompt and doesn't feel too crowded. :)

In side the [], the first number is the shell level, second is 2 if
windows is loaded, and third is last external error level. It takes some
time to get use to all the info displayed, but i found it VERY helpful. I
use multi-conf and this gives me enough info on whether i can run a
program or not..

Maybe this can be put in to the collection... :) Will it be released
anytime soon? I would love to try out the others..

J.P. software should put a decent prompt in their 4dos so newcomers can
get a feel of what it can do. just a thought.

Raymond Chi

p.s. by the way, mine only works if ansi driver is loaded.

: I have a collection of them.  They are not here now (I'm not
: on-line from home:), but I'll see what I can do about posting
: them.  All sorts of things there.  I'll have to zip and uuencode
: them, as there are some high-bit graphics characters in with
: them.  Some of them are really neat (a collection from Fidonet,
: my own experimentations, and from various other places... maybe I
: should submit them for archive purposes at SimTel and garbo?)

One more thing, anyone out there have a good ColorDir setting? Here's
mine. It's pretty simple, but does a good job for me. Maybe someone can
post their collections too. :)

ColorDir = dirs:bright red; system hidden:yellow; rdonly:green;
com:bright green; exe:cyan; bat btm:bright yellow; doc txt:bright white;
*:white

Raymond Chi

Give me a few days to organise this.

BTW, the BEST way to set the prompt is NOT with the prompt
command, but by using "set /r"  (I think it's "/r") to load the
prompt directly into the environment.  That way you don't have to
worry about the double %% and so on, and all sorts of tricks can
be done this way.

Cheers
Tony
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Quote:>One more thing, anyone out there have a good ColorDir setting? Here's
>mine. It's pretty simple, but does a good job for me. Maybe someone can
>post their collections too. :)

>ColorDir = dirs:bright red; system hidden:yellow; rdonly:green;
>com:bright green; exe:cyan; bat btm:bright yellow; doc txt:bright white;
>*:white

set colordir=dirs:bright blue; sys rdonly hidden system:bright red;
com exe bat btm:bright green;
zip arc arj lzh opx qwk rep sdn zoo gz:bright yellow

On the subject of prompts, I believe Tony Nugent has my PromptFromHell in
his collection [Tony, you want the current version?]. Here's what it
looks like, in one color (the original has seven colors):

Junk is the stuff we throw away; stuff is the junk we keep
[Tue, 09-06-94 - 00:40:25] [C 3483K] [D 2410K] [E 2K] [F 311K]                  
[4DOS 4.01D MSDOS 5.0a] [Mem 531K] [Shell: 1] C:\                              
D:\TM4>                                                                      

The first line uses the %exec[] function to put up a random tagline every
time the prompt is displayed. Time and available disk/memory space are
also updated on evey display.