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- \\ PROMPTER.SEQ A user prompting program Tom Zimmer
-
- A program to prompt for user input, and pass that input off to another
- program. Useful mostly to apply automatic prompting to programs that
- don't automatically prompt for input when the user doesn't supply it.
-
- You can add as much or as little prettiness to the prompt as you like.
-
- To compile PROMPTER.SEQ, enter the following command line
-
- TCOM PROMPTER /OPT /NOINIT <enter>
-
- {
-
- 82 array abuf \ a place to build a command line to execute
-
- : main ( -- )
- DECIMAL \ always select decimal
- ?DS: SSEG ! \ init search segment
- DOSIO_INIT \ init EMIT, TYPE & SPACES
- 0 SET_MEMORY \ minimize memory ueage
- DOS_TO_TIB \ move command tail to TIB
- COMSPEC_INIT \ init command specification
- #tib @ 0= \ was input on command line?
- if ." Enter parameters " \ if not, then prompt for
- query \ some parameters
- then
- " DIR " abuf place \ the command to do
- 0 word count abuf +place \ append users parameters
- abuf $sys drop ; \ shell out and doit
-
- }
-