Contributor: SWAG SUPPORT TEAM { The following TP code assigns a new Environment to the COMMand.COM which is invoked by TP's EXEC Function. In this Case, it is used to produce a Dos PROMPT which is different from the one in the Master Environment. Control is returned when the user Types Exit ... } { Reduce Retained Memory } {$M 2048,0,0} Program NewEnv; Uses Dos; Type String128 = String[128]; Const NewPrompt = 'PROMPT=$e[32mType Exit to Return to The Fitness Profiler$e[0m$_$_$p$g' + #0; Var EnvironNew, EnvironOld, offsetN, offsetO, SegBytes : Word; TextBuff : String128; Found, Okay : Boolean; Reg : Registers; Function AllocateSeg( BytesNeeded : Word ) : Word; begin Reg.AH := $48; Reg.BX := BytesNeeded div 16; MsDos( Reg ); if Reg.Flags and FCarry <> 0 then AllocateSeg := 0 else AllocateSeg := Reg.AX; end {AllocateSeg}; Procedure DeAllocateSeg( AllocSeg : Word; Var okay : Boolean ); begin Reg.ES := AllocSeg; Reg.AH := $49; MsDos( Reg ); if Reg.Flags and FCarry <> 0 then okay := False else okay := True; end {DeAllocateSeg}; Function EnvReadLn( EnvSeg : Word; Var Envoffset : Word ) : String128; Var tempstr : String128; loopc : Byte; begin loopc := 0; Repeat inC( loopc ); tempstr[loopc] := CHR(Mem[EnvSeg:Envoffset]); inC( Envoffset ); Until tempstr[loopc] = #0; tempstr[0] := CHR(loopc); {set str length} EnvReadLn := tempstr end {ReadEnvLn}; Procedure EnvWriteLn( EnvSeg : Word; Var Envoffset : Word; AsciizStr : String ); Var loopc : Byte; begin For loopc := 1 to Length( AsciizStr ) do begin Mem[EnvSeg:Envoffset] := orD(AsciizStr[loopc]); inC( Envoffset ) end end {EnvWriteLn}; begin {main} WriteLn(#10,'NewEnv v0.0 Dec.25.91 Greg Vigneault'); SegBytes := 1024; { size of new environment (up to 32k)} EnvironNew := AllocateSeg( SegBytes ); if EnvironNew = 0 then begin { asked For too much memory? } WriteLn('Can''t allocate memory segment Bytes.',#7); Halt(1) end; EnvironOld := MemW[ PrefixSeg:$002c ]; { current environ } { copy orig env, but change the PROMPT command } Found := False; offsetO := 0; offsetN := 0; Repeat { copy one env Var at a time, old env to new env} TextBuff := EnvReadLn( EnvironOld, offsetO ); if offsetO >= SegBytes then begin { not enough space? } WriteLn('not enough new Environment space',#7); DeAllocateSeg( EnvironNew, okay ); Halt(2) { abort to Dos } end; { check For the PROMPT command String } if Pos('PROMPT=',TextBuff) = 1 then begin { prompt command? } TextBuff := NewPrompt; { set new prompt } Found := True; end; { now Write the Variable to new environ } EnvWriteLn( EnvironNew, offsetN, TextBuff ); { loop Until all Variables checked/copied } Until Mem[EnvironOld:offsetO] = 0; { if no prompt command found, create one } if not Found then EnvWriteLn( EnvironNew, offsetN, NewPrompt ); Mem[EnvironNew:offsetN] := 0; { delimit new environ} MemW[ PrefixSeg:$2c ] := EnvironNew; { activate new env } WriteLn( #10, '....Type Exit to return to normal prompt...' ); SwapVectors; Exec( GetEnv('COMSPEC'),'/S'); {shell to Dos w/ new prompt} SwapVectors; MemW[ PrefixSeg:$2c ] := EnvironOld; { restore original env} DeAllocateSeg( EnvironNew, okay ); if not okay then WriteLn( 'Could not release memory!',#7 ); end {NewEnv}. (*******************************************************************)