From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: extraneous csh prompts Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2401 Posted: Mon Jun 21 20:15:11 1982 Received: Thu Jun 24 02:34:57 1982 References: floyd.299 This is a well known misfeature of csh. The offical fix is to fix your .cshrc, as follows: if ($?prompt) then set prompt='My Prompt ' set mail=/usr/spool/mail/me endif that is, only set prompt and mail if you already have a prompt set. Otherwise shell escapes cause all sorts of interesting things to happen. Mark