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From: daffy@warwick.UUCP (Steve Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Changing symbol info in spawned processes
Message-ID: <541@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 14:40:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: ubu.541
Posted: Sun Jun  7 14:40:48 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jun-87 03:11:35 EDT
Reply-To: daffy@ubu.UUCP (Steve Hunt)
Organization: Campaign for the Renaissance of Clockwork Watches
Lines: 30
Keywords: VMS, prompt, string, symbol


Ho there,

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!

The sort of thing I want is...

STEVE> eve foo.foo
.... uses Eve and then spawns
STEVE>> .... note different prompt....
STEVE>> spawn
STEVE>>> etc etc

Clearly I can use a DCL file for the case when I type SPAWN at the
command line, but how can I make Eve's spawn facility do it?

I expect this is a trivial question but I am relatively new to VMS!


Thanks in anticipation,

			Steve.
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