From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu (Zsh users list)
Subject: Re: showing 'talk' status in PROMPT
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:52:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199710270852.JAA07593@hydra.ifh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Timothy J Luoma"'s message of "Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:43:35 MET." <199710270443.XAA17820@luomat.peak.org>
Timothy J Luoma wrote:
> I am using this to let me know if I have turned off messages on my terminal:
>
> mesg () {
>
> case $1 in
> n*|off)
> TALK="<notalk> "
> /usr/bin/mesg n
> ;;
>
> *)
> /usr/bin/mesg $*
> TALK=""
I haven't tried this out, but you have problems if you just run mesg
with no arguments and it was already turned off. You should test
for '') and if so just run /usr/bin/mesg without setting $TALK.
>
> ;;
> esac
> }
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> Tel: +49 33762 77366
WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Fax: +49 33762 77413
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen
DESY-IfH, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-27 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-27 4:43 Timothy J Luoma
1997-10-27 8:52 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
1997-10-27 17:18 ` Timothy J Luoma
1997-10-27 17:21 ` Bart Schaefer
1997-10-27 18:13 ` Andrew Main
1997-10-28 1:28 ` Deborah Ariel Pickett
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