3 ms·
It was trivially easy back in the day to use DOS DEBUG to rewrite COMMAND.COM so that instead of giving an error message like "Command not understood" or whatev
by b800h 4y ago
It was trivially easy back in the day to use DOS DEBUG to rewrite COMMAND.COM so that instead of giving an error message like "Command not understood" or whatever the default was, it instead responded with, eg:
"My hovercraft is full of eels"
The height of school humour. As long as the replacement was shorter than the original it was just a text substitution.
- skissane 4y agoI did similar things as a kid. But I used Norton Disk Editor. It made it a lot easier.