Hello Mark,

    Responding to a post in the 4DOS area:
    On Monday January 03 2005 at 13:17,
    Mark Lewis [1:3634/12] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: MSDOS.SYS

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

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

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

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

Now I see what you are wanting to accomplish.

There must be a reason why Micro$oft decided that users could not close a
DOS window by hitting Alt-F4 (but it's beyond my reasoning).  I suspect
that if you try to alter the way Alt-F4 processes a DOS window, it will
have disastrous effects on the other open windows.

If there is a way to distinguish a DOS window versus a window 'window' by
a variable, then you may be able to alias *Alt-F4 by using 'iff' and
Kstack, but, I've been looking to you as being the resident guru.   :-[)

I spent some time perusing my ancient Fido 4DOS echo areas, but I didn't
find anything relating to your requirements - one or two that may provide a
direction of exploration, but nothing conclusive.  Give me a chance to
extract them from the database and I'll either post the results here or
netmail you.

           Cheers ... Gerald

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