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From: mff@wuphys.UUCP (Space Goat)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Funny prompts
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Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 17:58:53 EDT
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	Speaking of funny prompts, I have always wanted to write a shell script
	which would change the prompt every so often, while I'm logged on. The
	problem is that I can run a background process to change the shell variable
	PROMPT (I'm running csh), but the parent process (the shell that I'm
	talking to) doesn't know anything about that variable. Anyone have any
	ideas? 






						Mark F. Flynn
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
						ihnp4!wuphys!mff

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