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How many times have you gotten up from your desk and come back only to find that someone is been playing games, or has switched to a different program and messed up your work? Don't you wish you could irritate them just a bit? Nothing terribly mischevious that could get you in trouble, of course, but maybe you would like to throw some ANNOYing bells and prompts at the user when he or she executes a particular program, such as GOLF!
ANNOY does exactly that. It is a mini DOS shell. It accepts the user's inputs and executes them verbatim. However, if he enters a command that you want to annoy him about, the alarm will sound. He is then asked for a PASSWORD to allow him to use that program, otherwise the computer might "explode". That should be worth a few giggles. No matter what he enters, the password is accepted and the program is then executed normally. In other words, the key program names that ANNOY looks for are not password protected, and do not prevent the user from running them. (You are welcome to modify ANNOY.C, and recompile it, to include this feature if you desire.) We could indeed password protect entry into a particular program, but what good would it do? The user could easily rename the file he wishes to execute, or create a batch file to run it for him. The point of ANNOY is to pester him without making the machine unusable.
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