This program is merely a joke, but it has some useful applications as well. With it, you can amuse your friends and collegues, and confuse your system administrator. And although it runs fine in all versions of VxD-based Windows, it might get an additional wrinkle in Windows 95 in light of Microsoft original marketing claim that this release of Windows contains no DOS.
DosNoGo is a very small program, but it's able to dramatically alter the course of execution of any DOS program, and any Windows program that you start from the command line. DosNoGo can be configured to:
You give DisNoGo instructions in its configuration file and specify the file name on the command line. Each instruction takes one line in the file, and there virtually no limit of the number of instructions. DosNoGo runs as an icon that can never be restored and doens't even have a title name. It can only be closed, and until then it honors all the configuration file instructions, no matter from which DOS box you try to run programs specified in these instructions. A sample configuration file might look like this:
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c:\windows\command\chkdsk.exe c:\dos\interlnk.exe= c:\windows\command\xcopy.exe=c:\dos\qbasic.exe c:\windows\command\attrib.exe= *.* c:\dos\command.com=c:\windows\command\command.com |
In this case, while DosNoGo is running, chkdsk and interlnk will not be able to start at all, qbasic will run any time you try to start xcopy, attrib will always run with '*.*' parameter, and any attempt to run the old version of command.com will result to the current version of a program running instead, which is actually a useful feature.
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