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From: nigam%mwvms@MITRE.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Getting directory in DCL prompt
Message-ID: <8801271320.AA15259@mitre.arpa>
Date: 27 Jan 88 13:20:54 GMT
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>From: "The Radio Gnome" <V2002A%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
>Subject: getting current dir in dcl prompt
>     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" >:-{
     
Try $SET PROMPT='F$STRING(F$DIRECTORY()+">")'
     
This works best if imbeded in a .COM file which you use
to change directories; several such have appeared on DECUS
tapes in the past.
     
Incidentally, you can have spaces in your string, just enclose
the whole thing in quotation marks, ie.
$SET PROMPT="Hello World"
     
Alok C. Nigam
nigam@mitre.arpa
     

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