From acb0c260366e2a235ee6623be32fd50bcc7f1702 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brandon Turner <turnerb7@msu.edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:51:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Setting my changes back for prompt.c.  Greatlord and I agreed
 about this.  These was a miscommication about these changes and the way
 different MS version handle it.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=17620
---
 reactos/subsys/system/cmd/prompt.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/reactos/subsys/system/cmd/prompt.c b/reactos/subsys/system/cmd/prompt.c
index a4dddeed560..0ef0bac23bd 100644
--- a/reactos/subsys/system/cmd/prompt.c
+++ b/reactos/subsys/system/cmd/prompt.c
@@ -204,12 +204,20 @@ INT cmd_prompt (LPTSTR cmd, LPTSTR param)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	/* set PROMPT environment variable */
+	/* if it is null, then it needs to set to default,
+	   because that means the user entered "prompt" only.
+		so even if param is null you _must_ still set prompt
+		to the default.  There seems to be some kinda difference 
+		between winxp and 2k in this matter and this way will 
+		cover both. */
 	if (param[0] != _T('\0'))
-	{
-		if (!SetEnvironmentVariable (_T("PROMPT"), param))
-		    return 1;		
-	}
+		_tcscpy(szParam,param);
+	else
+		_tcscpy(szParam,_T("$P$G"));
+
+	/* set PROMPT environment variable */
+	if (!SetEnvironmentVariable (_T("PROMPT"), szParam))
+		return 1;
 			
 	return 0;
 }