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From: V2002A@TEMPLEVM.BITNET ("The Radio Gnome")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: getting current dir in dcl prompt
Message-ID: <8801281127.AA17941@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 26 Jan 88 20:15:00 GMT
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Hi,

     The logical thing to do would be:

$TEMP = "show default"
$SET PROMPT = 'TEMP'

..but VMS will only take a string for SET PROMPTs argument
and the string must not have spaces in it.  VMS complains about
"too many parameters" >:-{


    There was/is a similar discussion going on in unix-wizards
where:

set prompt 'pwd' (I think?) seemed to do the trick.

    Has anyone else come up with a solution?

     Andy Wing