From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 0270b537 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 15:20:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id CD148A1CD0; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 01:20:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6DD8A19DD; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 01:20:21 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 01A82A19DD; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 01:20:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mercury.lcs.mit.edu (mercury.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.122]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B2BB9A19D7 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 01:20:19 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 11178) id EDBBA18C08E; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 11:20:18 -0400 (EDT) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Message-Id: <20180808152018.EDBBA18C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 11:20:18 -0400 (EDT) From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of shell prompt suffixes % $ > # X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > From: Nemo > I will, no doubt, be flayed on this list but I tend to use "=>". Hey, if it works for you, go for it. After the Nth time I got confused as to exactly which machine I was typing to, I hacked the shell on my V6 Unix to read its prompt from ".profile". (Very clean, only one added line of code in the existing code.) Noel