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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 19:54:50 -0500
From: Palmer Davis <davis@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: fn prompt and readline

[Chet]
>(Forgive me, I don't know the rc syntax very well, but wouldn't this or
>something like it work?

>From my .rcrc, before I got sick of it and switched back to a bare semicolon:

#fn prompt { prompt=(`{whoami}^'@'`{hostname}^':'^`{pwd}^'; ' '' ); stty sane }

(It's "prompt", not "ps1"....)

Palmer Davis, CWRU INS Mac/UNIX Guy <davis@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>  Life is short.