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A message displayed on screen that requests action from the user, such as "Enter Employee Name" or "Press 1 to Continue." Command Prompts Are Brief Command-driven systems do not offer a menu and...
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Definition: prompt
A message displayed on screen that requests action from the user, such as "Enter Employee Name" or "Press 1 to Continue."
Command Prompts Are Brief
Command-driven systems do not offer a menu and require that users know the commands beforehand and type them in correctly spelled. When ready to accept the next command, they display a simple prompt such as the dollar sign ($) in Unix and Linux. In the DOS command line, the prompt is the drive letter, folder name and right arrow (>); for example: c:\backup>. The command line prompt in dBASE is nothing more than a single dot (.).
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