Last month we looked at a few tips concerning using DOS in Win95. We ll continue here by looking at a really slick way to customize your DOS box. As most PC users know, the prompt command creates a distinctive DOS prompt.
Most users have a prompt command in their autoexec.bat file.
Actually, this is advisable. Additionally, recall last month that we outlined how to specify different autoexec.bat and config.sys files for each Real Mode DOS application. Therefore, each application can have its own winpmt statement. The first thing you have to do, however, is to install the ansi.sys device driver in config.sys, which gives you more control over the keyboard and screen. The following tables summarize all the meta-strings supported by ansi.sys.