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Old August 28th 19, 07:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
R.Wieser
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Default Changing the caption of a DOS box to the name of the current folder - a problem

Hello all,

A few weeks ago I got a bit fed up with having several minimized
command-prompt windows on my taskbar, and all displaying the same "command
prompt" caption text. So, I googled for a solution (duh).

What I found is the program "title", with which the "idle" caption of the
window can be set. As I start a batch file to open such a command prompt
(which gets the path to the folder in %1) I just added the line "title %~n1"
to set the caption to the name of the current folder.

The problem ofcourse is that when I execute a "cd" the caption doesn't
change to match the new folder. :-(

Does anyone know if the "title" program (or another /that comes with the
OS/) can be told to track the current folders name ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Remark: If no program exists I will probably try to make one myself: I don't
think that the result will be pretty though (polling & updating
command-prompt windows every 100...1000 ms or so. yuck)



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