From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 05:00:18 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] shell PS1/PS2 which survive cut-paste
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Paul Ruizendaal <pnr at planet.nl> wrote:

> Don’t know when or where “>” was first used on Unix as a prompt character
> (on my boxes it still is “$”).

The V7 shell uses it as the secondary prompt, for when a construct
isn't complete:

	$ echo 'abc
	> def'
	abc
	def

Arnold