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From: OBERMAN@ICDC.LLNL.GOV ("Kevin Oberman, LLNL,  422-6955, L-156", 415)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DCL prompt definition (cont.)
Message-ID: <8802061718.AA19096@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 27 Jan 88 17:56:00 GMT
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>     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" >:-{

VMS ain't that dum! It should be:
$ Temp = "nnn mmmm xxxx" (or whatever)
$ Set Prompt="''Temp'"

					R. Kevin Oberman
					Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
					Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov
   					(415) 422-6955

Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.


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