A BetterCommand Prompt

Novell Cool Solutions: Tip
By Bryan Keadle

Digg This - Slashdot This Posted: 14 Nov 2006

As an administrator, you know there are times that working at a command prompt is still the best way to go for some tasks. When you're on a mapped drive, the default DOS prompt will look like this:

It's not immediately apparent WHICH server H: might be mapped to, and where (for mapped drives).

By creating/modifying the system wide PROMPT environment variable (default is $P$G) to be: $M$_$P$G:

You can get a better DOS Prompt like this, which shows the drive mapping as part of the prompt:

As you change drives, you'll alway know to where that drive is mapped.

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