Subj : Re: changing the prompt to show only a few directories
To   : Klaus Meinhard
From : Stan Brown
Date : Thu Feb 07 2002 02:17 pm

From: Stan.Brown@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Stan Brown)
Subject: Re: changing the prompt to show only a few directories

From: brahms@mindspring.com (Stan Brown)

Klaus Meinhard <K_Meinhard@t-online.de> wrote in comp.os.msdos.4dos:
>Amit,
>
>> How can I change the prompt in 4NT so that it only displays a certain
>number
>> of characters in the prompt? Sometimes when I'm deep inside the
>directory
>> hierarchy, the prompt takes up an entire line
>
>take a look at @left, @instr, @right, @if  and you'll be able to come up
>with a solution that fulfi8lls your need, e.g. (all on one line)
>
>  set prompt=%%@if[%@len[%_cwds] gt
>43,%@left[20,%_cwds]...%@right[20,%_cwds],%_cwds]

Interesting -- I never realized you could execute functions in the prompt. But
if I'm reading the 4DOS help correctly, the single % in the above should all be
double %% when this is in a batch file, and the double %% shown should be only
a single % when not in a batch file.

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