Contributor: STEVE ROGERS { That won't work, actually. He wants to change the _prompt_ in his shell. Here's one way: } {$m 4096,0,0} uses dos; var f : text; begin assign(f,'chgprmpt.bat'); rewrite(f); writeln(f,'@set prompt=Type EXIT to return to '+paramstr(0)+'$g'); close(f); swapvectors; exec(getenv('COMSPEC'),'/K chgprmpt.bat'); swapvectors; end.