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- NP - Nosy Prompter
- by Russell Nelson
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- Copyright 1988 By Russell Nelson. Don't try to make money off of it, and
- don't pretend that you wrote it.
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- Have you ever shelled to DOS from an application program only to forget
- that you had done so, and you ran your application again? This can
- result in a lack of memory to run the application, or if you have shelled
- from an editor, you can lose changes to a file, or if you have shelled
- from a communications package, you can lose your session and even be forced
- to reboot.
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- I've done it myself. I've done it enough times to do something about
- it by writing NP, the Nosy Prompter. NP will peek around in your memory
- to find suspended programs, and it will remind you of them at every
- DOS prompt. NP is written in assembly language, and only takes 800 bytes
- when resident. Source is included and the program is freely copyable.
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- Unfortunately, in order to find the name of the program, NP requires
- DOS 3.x. Versions of DOS prior to 3.x didn't save the name of the program
- in the environment where NP looks for it.
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- Bugs, enhancements, kudos to:
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- Russell Nelson
- Snail: 11 Grant St., Potsdam, NY 13676
- Compu$erve: 70441,205
- GEnie: BH01
- Internet: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu
- BITNET: NELSON@CLUTX
- UUCP: uunet!clutx.clarkson.edu!nelson
- Fido/Opus: Russ Nelson@1:260/360
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