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>Subject: Re: question on spawning DOS from C prog
>Date: 6 Jan 93 10:50:55 GMT
>jmt7@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOHN M. TROIANO) writes:
>
>>For example, after spawning DOS the user would
>>see:
>>            <Type EXIT to return to program>      <--this would appear
>>                                                     each time <RET> hit
>>            C:\
>>    Is there, perhaps, a parameter to COMMAND.COM to do this?

Reply was:
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>In your function declare something like:
>
>	static char prompt[]="PROMPT=<Type EXIT to return to program>$_$_$P";
>
>and before the spawnl() do a
>
>	putenv(prompt);
>
>to get exactly what you want.
>
>Greetings,
>Wolfgang
>--
>siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)

Is this possible?  It was my understanding that 'spawn' called a new command 
shell so any changes in the environment would not be carried over.

I've always used 'spawnl' with the 'e' suffix to set or pass on environment 
variables.

Curiously,

Tim Ma
Associate Programmer
University of Utah
Email:  tim@src.cppa.utah.edu