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From: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Current Directory in Titlebar
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Date: 21 Dec 87 20:52:16 GMT
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In article <1987Dec20.175713.7918@sq.uucp> hobie@sq.UUCP (Hobie Orris) writes:

>Up in the top of my CLI window it
>says "AmigaDOS" in the title bar.  I don't need to be reminded that I'm using 
>an Amiga.  I think it would be much more useful to have the name of my current 
>directory there, like "DH0:/src/widget" so I don't have to type in "pwd" to 
>findout where I am.  Perhaps a definable title bar that you could specify 
>what you want on the title bar, like "$pwd\t\t$date\t\t$lasterr" and have 
>it update auto-magically whenever these values change, or something.

> Hobie Orris

Actually what you are talking about is already implemented in the Metacomco
Shell program (CLI replacement).  However, the Date and Lasterr are not
included.  I am sure that when we loose BCPL, and all the Amiga programs
are written in Assembler, and we finally get documentation on writting
your own CLIs all this stuff will be generally available.  Now however
most of this stuff is controlled by the CLI.  The one thing that I have
been thinking of doing is getting the source to the ARP cd command and 
making it change the console windows title.  The rest of the stuff you
mention really would require something like matt's shell.  Course I could
always make the cd command change the CLI prompt like I have here on my
Sun machine.
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