Altering the Prompt

PROMPT
The PROMPT instruction changes the form of the system prompt.

• the standard form of system prompt displays the drive letter along with greater than sign (e.g. A>)
• Prompt can be made informative by adding date, time or a chosen text etc. (e.g. Mon 07/08/96 12:56:33>)
• The appearance of the system prompt may differ according to the suppliers of the system.

Syntax

PROMPT $x[$x]....

Where,

PROMPT : without parameters, the operating system will continue using the standard prompt.

$               : A dollar sign, the beginning of the code of a parameter.

Without $ sign, the character will be shown literally as text.

X : A character from the following list

D : Date

T :  Time

P :  current driectory of current drive

N :current drive

V : version of MS-DOS

G : >, "Greater than" symbol

L :<,"smaller than" symbol 

B : Pipe symbol

Q : =, equal sign

H : Back on space and delete previous symbol.

E : Escape sign

Example 1

C:\>PROMPT (pres enter key)

It changes to the system prompt to C>

Example 2

C:\>PROMPT $P$G (press enter key)

It changes system prompt to C:\>

Example 3

C:\>PROMPT $D $T$G (press enter key)

It changes to the system prompt to date, and time as :

Mon 07/08/96 12:56:33