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From: PJS@NAIF.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott)
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Subject: Setting prompt to time
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Date: 18 May 88 01:16:32 GMT
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As a matter of a fact I did receive a perfectly good solution from Eric
Wentz that didn't involve patching DCL (often frowned upon by system
managers).  He sent me a program called NEW_PROMPT that sets a process's
prompt given a PID.  I modified it slightly and call it from a subprocess
that sets priority to 1 and wakes up every 10 seconds.  Unfortunately I
don't have Eric's network address (got swept up with the headers when I
stripped them off), but if anyone wants the program, if Eric says it's
okay, I can mail it to you.  Looks like a nice piece of work.

Peter Scott (pjs%grouch@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov)