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From: SQKEITH@CSVAX.LIV.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: getting current dir in prompt
Message-ID: <8802090539.AA14695@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 28 Jan 88 09:50:14 GMT
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The following fragment of DCL code is sufficient to set the prompt to the
current directory:


$ DIRSTR=f$DIRECTORY() - "[" - "]"  ! removes the brackets from the spec
$ SET PROMPT="''DIRSTR'"

Keith Halewood


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