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siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck) writes:

> 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.

This will, of course, require that you have spare room in your
environment block.  Applications are passed a _copy_ of the environment
by command.com, which has all spare space trimmed off.  Thus, the
putenv() call may very well fail.

4dos can pass extra environment space explicitly, or you can construct
an environment array for the child program and pass it with a spawnlpe()
or similar call.
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