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Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 05-17-2004, 09:30 PM:

Ever wonder why some error messages came up when you fed some bogus information to your old DOS computer?

Well, I want it to say something nasty instead of this "Politically Correct" garbage.

Result?

Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 05-18-2004, 12:58 AM:

That's awesome.

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 05-19-2004, 10:26 AM:

It's trivial to take a binary editor and replace the text replies in command.com (or any other program from that era) with others. I did that as a prank to several people's command.com's back in the late 1980s. Cool!