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From: dre@ptsfa.UUCP (Doug East)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Funny prompts, anybody?
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Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 14:43:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  4 14:43:00 1984
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> Out of curiosity, I'd like to know whether anybody else has had the same
> idea, and what other "funny" (or tragic, or whatever) prompts people use.

Being brought up on Cyber NOS before becoming a confirmed UNIX user, I
learned to like a slash prompt ('/').  Hence, I use the same prompt now.
It does seem to confuse a few people because of its similarity to path
names and the like but I haven't had any problems, yet.  Additionally,
PS2 is set to '+'.