       External Documentation for EZPROMPT.BAT,  John Paul Jones, 1997
       ============ (c) DOS World Magazine, January 1997 =============
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       EZPROMPT  generates a customizable DOS PROMPT banner at the top
       top of the screen, as featured in DOS World magazine, Jan 1997,
       in "Best of the Batch Roundup".

       The ANSI.SYS device driver must be loaded for this batch script
       to work.   If you have a newer Windows XP  system,  you'll need
       to edit the CONFIG.NT file to include the line:

       DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ANSI.SYS

       This assumes C: is the root drive of your system, which it most
       often is, and also, that the ANSI.SYS device driver resides  in
       the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder, as it should.

       In older systems using MS-DOS 5.0 through 6.2, add this line to
       the CONFIG.SYS file located in the root folder C:

       DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS

       This assumes that ANSI.SYS is located in the C:\DOS  directory,
       which is typically so -- that's the default folder where MS-DOS
       puts its device drivers during installation.

       The help file SETNAME7.BAT is an updated version of SETNAME.BAT
       as it appeared in the September 1997 issue of DOS World,  which
       used a no-longer workable technique to align the text passed as
       the first parameter.  This version uses hybrid Batch/QBasic but
       the program works without it,  though an asterik will appear in
       place of the name passed.

       Thus the program doesn't require QBASIC.EXE, but if it's found,
       then the text passed as the first replaceable parameter will be
       justifed; otherwise, the first parameter is ignored.

       If you're working in Windows XP VDM (Virtual DOS Machine), keep
       in mind that this program was written for DOS, which means that
       it requires the COMMAND.COM command line interpreter -- CMD.EXE
       is the XP default, so you'll need to run COMMAND.COM.

       If the banner won't display, or you get gobblygook, chances are
       you used a program that switched the inerpreter to CMD.EXE.

       For usage information, type the program's name without anything
       following, and hit the Enter key.

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       * The name to be put in the center of the banner doesn't permit
       spaces, so use underline, e.g.,  EZPROMPT DOS_World_BBS 2 1 3 H

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