Greetings, fellow DOSians.    
      
   In a spate of DOSbox-inspired nostalgia, I've recently embarked on a quest to   
   recreate a DOS-based menu system that my father made for my siblings and   
   myself when we were all little and the computer ran Windows 3.1 . But despite   
   my best efforts we haven'   
   t been able to locate a working copy and I am trying to recreate the program   
   with whatever scraps he remembers and our own command-line experience, and I'm   
   asking for a little help in the process.   
      
   What I definitely recall about the program:   
      
   1. In the bottom-right corner there was a real-time clock with the date.   
      
   2. The background was blue and the text white. (this, at least, was cake to   
   rediscover)   
      
   3. Navigation was a hybrid system of arrow keys and numbers. You could either   
   use the Up or Down arrow keys to move a little cursor like this: <-- and then   
   hit "Enter" to run the entry or push a number and it would do the same thing.   
      
   4. Each 'page' had ten numbered entries from 0-9 to match the number keys.   
      
   5. By pressing a certain letter ("E" if memory serves), the currently selected   
   entry would go to a little page where you could Edit it like a mini-batch file   
   with a single DOS command per line and each command executed in sequence.    
      
   6. A similar command (the "R" key) would Rename the current selection. You   
   backspaced out any letters/numbers to blank it out.   
      
   7. It did not require any sort of high memory - UMS/EMS, etc.    
      
   What I DO NOT remember:    
      
   1. If the program was entirely self-contained in one batch file/executable or   
   if it was split into parts. I SUSPECT that it was self-contained.   
      
   2. If it was entirely written in "native DOS" or if it required a programming   
   tool. I SUSPECT the whole thing was one or a series of well-written batch   
   files.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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