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From: rnmst1@cisunx.UUCP (Mingo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Setting prompt to time
Keywords: prompt, time
Message-ID: <8281@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 21:04:19 GMT
Reply-To: rnmst1@cisunx.UUCP (Mingo)
Organization: National Uvula Association
Lines: 34

I am accustomed to having the current time as my prompt using the
extended prompt facilities of tcsh, and was wondering if it was
possible if I could have something similar set up on VMS.  I realise
that it would have to be done something like the following
command procedure:


$! A procedure to set the prompt to the current time.
$!
$ set noon
$ esc[0,8] = 27
$ loop:
$ prompt = esc + "[7m" + f$extract(0,5,f$fao("!%T",0)) + esc + "[m"
$ read/prompt="''prompt' " sys$output line
$ spawn/nolog 'line'
$ goto loop


The problems are 1) this procedure has to keep running all the time,
and 2) it has to spawn processes all the time.  That's because it
couldn't do some things like MAIL or PHONE.  

Is there a better way to set a VMS prompt to the current time?

Thanks ahead of time, 
Mingo



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