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From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
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Subject: Re: Changing symbol info in spawned processes
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Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 11:13:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 17 11:13:01 1987
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 > I would like to modify my prompt in spawned  subshells,  particularly  from
 > Eve.   Is there an easy way to do this?  The reason I want this facility is
 > so that I do not type "lo" one too many times and find  myself  logging  in
 > again!

It took me a while to realize that  nobody  responded  to  Steve  Hunt's  REAL
question,  and  that  somebody  should.   He really wants to avoid killing his
top-level process, and setting the DCL prompt was simply a perceived means  to
that end.  Since he appears generally to use the "logout" command to terminate
his current process, executing the command
        $ SET COMMAND/DELETE=(LOGOUT,EOJ)
in his LOGIN.COM should solve his problem.  In order to log  the  top  process
out, he has his choice of "$ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:LOGINOUT" or "$ STOP/ID=0".  Since
spawning  a subprocess entails reading the CLI table again, the LOGOUT and EOJ
commands will still work for all but the top-level process.