[Coco] shell+ command prompt

[Wayne Campbell]

Thanks for that info, Robert. I will grab it tomorrow. The docs I have for
shell+2.1 don't include the offset or that a custom prompt can be stored.

Wayne
 On Oct 18, 2013 9:28 PM, "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Wayne Campbell wrote:
>
>> I have looked all over the net. I even found a shell+2.2a lzh archive from
>> 1993. Where are the docs that tell you how to do things like change the
>> command prompt?
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>>
> After doing some searching, I found that all of the shellplus
> documentation is in the NitrOS-9 project. Look in the docs directory for
> the shellplus directory.
>
> If you did not download all the NitrOS-9 source code, look here
> http://sourceforge.net/p/**nitros9/code/ci/default/tree/**docs/shellplus/<http://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/code/ci/default/tree/docs/shellplus/>
>
> As for making prompt changes, p=prompt where prompt is some message
> including:
> # - show proc id
> @ - show current std out
> $ - show working dir
> ( - show date
> ) - show time
>
> Changes will not be permanent as the prompt is stored in shell. There is
> however space for 24 characters at the beginning of shellplus to store a
> custom prompt. These changes could be made with ded starting at $3D.
>
> Robert
>
>
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