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I remember editing command.com too, with debug.exe, to change some of the standard messages, or even command names, as you did. Another cool DOS thing was that
by fuzztester 3y ago
I remember editing command.com too, with debug.exe, to change some of the standard messages, or even command names, as you did.
Another cool DOS thing was that you could type Alt+255 (last 8-bit character code) as part of a filename. That appeared like a space character, so made it effectively "hidden" to those who did not know about the trick, because they could not type its name to list or edit it.
- PodgieTar 3y agoI used to do this on Windows XP to make my desktop look cleaner, all the files were ALT+255 repeated N times, or, more accurately, repeated a random number of times.
- fuzztester 3y agoBut then how did you access those files yourself, if their names looked like just spaces? Would they not be invisible to you too?
- KETHERCORTEX 3y agoI guess they did it with icons.
- fuzztester 2y agoMakes sense, should have thought of it. Maybe I didn't because I am more of a backend and command line guy.