Re: [OT] Re: how do i clear a screen?

From: Martijn Lievaart (m_at_rtij.nl.removefromhere.invalid)
Date: 10/20/03 

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:20:44 +0200

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:51:11 +0300, WW wrote:

>>
>> Possible? Nah. I once tried to set my command shell to bash on
>> Windows. It does not work. There are replacements for command.com and
>> cmd.exe (4dos and 4NT come to mind), but those that keep Windows
>> working are compattible enough for things like this to work
>> guarenteed.
>
> It is. I can anytime alias cls to dir in 4dos. And I had command.com (IIRC
> even cmd.exe) replacements, which did not run *any* command unless you have
> typed it... well, example:

Yes possible in that sense, yes. But lot of things don't work anymore.
Don't ask me what these where, it was a long time ago (using NT4 fwiw)
 
> C:\>cls
> You are rude!
> C:\>cls
> Say the magic word!
> C:\>cls, please
> <the screen is cleared>
>
> Fun programs to install on workmates computers. ;-)

I once created a file <Projecname>Demo.exe and left it in a shared folder.
You could hear from the swearing who had tried it out :-)

M4

P.S. The program just did a ExitWindowsEx with the right combination of
flags.

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