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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: use PS1 to give naive users a menu
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 10:56:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 10:56:56 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:58:35 EST
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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I've found that using the shell's prompt string (PS1) can be
a really easy way of giving computer-naive users a menu of
available commands, if the command set they need is very limited.
The bare "$ " of the shell can be intimidating, after all. Our
Director of Education has this in his .profile, for example:

PS1='Type "mail", "notes", "learntax" or "bye": '
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