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To: | ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) |
Cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Setting env variables |
References: | <6783jr$gv2 AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca> |
From: | Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi> |
Date: | 17 Dec 1997 11:54:41 +0200 |
In-Reply-To: | ao950@FreeNet.Carleton.CA's message of 17 Dec 1997 08:47:55 GMT |
Message-ID: | <86p3ejs2t26.fsf@vesuri.Helsinki.FI> |
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ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) writes: > Secondly, maybe someone can decompile the set.com (or whatever it is) that > comes with DOS to see how to modify the parent environment. The SET > command works nicely for this: The SET command is internal to COMMAND.COM; it *doesn't* change any parent environment. You can try this: command set prompt=$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/
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