To: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Setting env variables
References: <6783jr$gv2 AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca>
From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Date: 17 Dec 1997 11:54:41 +0200
In-Reply-To: ao950@FreeNet.Carleton.CA's message of 17 Dec 1997 08:47:55 GMT
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ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) writes:

> Secondly, maybe someone can decompile the set.com (or whatever it is) that
> comes with DOS to see how to modify the parent environment. The SET
> command works nicely for this:

The SET command is internal to COMMAND.COM; it *doesn't* change any
parent environment. You can try this:

	command
	set prompt=$p$l
	exit

Notice how the exit command undoes the prompt change.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/