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From: JOE@FHCRCVAX.BITNET (Joe Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Re: Setting prompt to time
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Date: 19 Apr 88 16:18:00 GMT
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>I notice that no-one yet has submitted a solution to the problem that
>sets the prompt without running a command procedure 'shell'.  I wanted
>a more unobtrusive solution some time ago, and experimented with a
>sub-process that would modify the prompt string in my process's TT_UCB.
>Unfortunately, I couldn't find all the internals I needed, even after
>hours of plowing through the fiches, and besides, I've always crashed
>the machine when I've tried CHMK before, which this seems to require.
>However, there are some people on this list who are capable of programming
>this; anyone care to take up the challenge?
Peter,
        If I wasn't doing several other things I'd take a stab at it. But, I
think I would approach it a little differently.. Why waste a subprocess for
such a little thing? Patch DCL. Or, jump into supervisor mode and grab some
memory, put in a routine to set the prompt, and set up a repeating schdwk
to call this routine.. Anyway, I'd approach it from DCL rather from the
terminal drivers point of view.

  Cheers,
  Joe Meadows Jr.
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