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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: title bar hack
Message-ID: <8801202122.AA09909@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 20 Jan 88 21:22:10 GMT
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>I agree.  Bill Hawes' new WShell (coming soon) has a zillion options
>on the prompt, one of them is 'execute this file'.  He supplies a
>program called cdtitle that puts the current dir name in the title
>bar.  It's small and resident-able (his version of resident does
>checksumming) so doesn't cost much.

	Awww.  Steve took a really neat feature out of my shell.
MY shell's (the original) _prompt variable holds a *command* rather than a
prompt string... usually set to "echo -n "% "", but settable to ANYTHING, 
including executing a sequence of commands, shell scripts, or whatever you 
want.

				-Matt