-=> On 12-28-04 14:12, Gerald Miller wrote to mark lewis <=-

 GM> Hello mark,

 GM>     Responding to a post in the 4DOS area:
 GM>     On Wednesday December 22 2004 at 15:43,
 GM>     mark lewis [1:3634/12] wrote to Gerald Miller,
 GM>     about: MSDOS.SYS

 GM>> ; "shortcut" for typing EXIT
 GM>> ex=*exit

 GM>> I can probably dig up some more from the DOS machine...

 ml> i'd like to find one for when i do an ALT-F4 in a dos window so that i
 ml> don't have to say, "oops!" and then type exit to close
the window...

 GM> Sorry for taking so long to get back at ya (holiday season and
 GM> all).  I do hope that the season was enjoyable for you, your
 GM> family and everyone got what they desired.

not a problem... i've been in and out quite a bit, too...

 GM> I do hope you're talking about Win98SE here...  I have PIF
 GM> files for the Dosprmpt and 4dos, and when I do Properties ->
 GM> Program, there is a little box near the bottom that says:
 GM> "Close on exit"; put a check mark in the box, apply the changes
 GM> and close the Properties box.  If that doesn't take care of
 GM> your "oops!", then I am misunderstanding you.

right, that doesn't do what i'm after though i do use it...

what i'm after is something like the old ANSI.SYS keyboard macro
stuff such that when i hit ALT-F4 in a dos window, it'll enter in EXIT
and the carriage return...

see? i go through and close a bunch of windows with ALT-F4 by just
hitting it on each window as it closes... but when i get to a DOS
window, and do that, nothing happens and i have to adjust myself and
everything to type EXIT and hit enter and then go back to ALT-F4ing the
rest of them down...

)\/(ark