Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!VPFVM.BITNET!XRBEO
From: XRBEO@VPFVM.BITNET (Bruce O'Neel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: getting current dir in dcl prompt
Message-ID: <8802090319.AA12214@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 28 Jan 88 14:08:10 GMT
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You need to put " in the symbol for set prompt

$ set prompt="//STEP EXEC PGM="

makes me think I'm on mvs.  I believe that the following will work (Im on ibm
right now, I can't try it)

$ tmp = """//STEP EXEC PGM="""
$ set prompt='tmp'

If the syntax isn't right, the idea is.

bruce <xrbeo@vpfvm> on bitnet

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