ARPUS/ce, Version 2.6.2 (03/10/05) (SCCS 1.2) _______________________________________________________________________________ sp '<string>' "set prompt" DESCRIPTION: 'sp' is a special command for use with "Ce aware" programs. A program is "Ce aware" if it is the program executing under a ceterm and it wishes to make use of Ce features from within the program. The effect of the sp command is to disengage the UNIX window from the transcript window, set the prompt in the Unix window to the passed value, and disable password hiding (dot) mode. What is meant by disengaging the UNIX window, is that normal prompts sent to ceterm by the program are not displayed in the UNIX window. Instead they are just held until they are newline terminated and then output to the transcript window. A normal prompt is a line not terminated by a newline, This allows the program to control the prompt independent of what is going on in the transcript. For example, if a program running under a ceterm is monitoring a piece of hardware and generating statistics about that hardware and putting them in the transcript pad, output may be continually scrolling in the window. This is independent from the collection of commands in the Unix window. This command is not used in normal day to day use. RELATED HELP FILES: prefix (Command File) support (customer support) _______________________________________________________________________________ Copyright (c) 2005, Robert Styma Consulting. All rights reserved.