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Subject: Re: early reaction(s) to rc 
In-reply-to: arnold's message of Fri, 23 Aug 91 12:24:20 -0400.
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1991 21:33:04 -0500
From: Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
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Arnold writes:
| Byron has told me in private mail he doesn't think the shell should
| automatically change prompts for root.  I disagree, but not terribly
| strongly.  My own suggestion for a root prompt would be ';; '.

 If rc is going to automatically change my prompt when I'm root, I
should darn well be able to tell it what to. How about prompt(3) and
prompt(4), if present?

 It isn't truly necessary, as one can always play around with a prompt
function that checks for various indications of root-ness (the cheap
one I've used before is a HOME of /).

	- cks