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From: JOE@FHCRCVAX.BITNET (Joe Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: getting current dir in dcl prompt
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Date: 28 Jan 88 19:34:00 GMT
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>     The logical thing to do would be:
>
>$TEMP = "show default"
>$SET PROMPT = 'TEMP'

        Actually, the "logical" thing to do would be:
$ SET PROMPT="''F$ENVIRONMENT("DEFAULT")' $ "

        Or some such mess. But why? I mean, when you're down a few
levels you could have a prompt that fills up a whole line, or several
even.. I could see writing it to a status line if your terminal supports
one (mine doesn't, so I prefer to just remember where I'm at).


        Cheers,
        Joe Meadows     joe@fhcrcvax

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