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- METACHARACTERS
-
- The special metacharacters that can be used in prompt-string are
- as follows:
-
-
- METACHARACTER: What gets displayed as a result:
-
- $$ The dollar sign
- $_ A carriage return line feed sequence
- (go to beginning of next line on the screen)
- $a The "&" character [OS/2 only]
- $b The "|" character
- $c The "(" character [OS/2 only]
- $d The date
- $e The ASCII escape character (decimal value 27),
- which is required for generating escape sequences
- when reassigning keys.
- $f The ")" character [OS/2 only]
- $g The ">" character
- $h A backspace and erasure of the previous character
- $i The 'help' line [OS/2 only]
- $l The "<" character
- $n The default drive letter
- $p The current directory of the default drive
- $q The "=" character
- $s The space character (leading string only) [OS/2 only]
- $t The time
- $v The DOS version number