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From: john@jclyde.UUCP (John B. Meaders Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,alt.flame
Subject: Re: recent postings to comp.sources.misc
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Date: 6 Jul 88 03:41:26 GMT
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In article <4491@csli.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes:
>                    Why don't people wanting sophisticated prompt just use
>shells like tcsh which allow you to do really fancy things to your prompts?

Perhaps "people" don't have tcsh or they don't want to use it.  There are
people who enjoy using there own resources to affect a desired change.  They
then like to share their methods with the world.  If you want to use tcsh,
go ahead.  Don't force people to use something you want them to use just
because you are offended at seeing some novel ideas.  If you want to gripe
about bandwidth wasting, gripe about binary groups.  Oh, also you need to
fix your newsreader to append only one .signature and not two before you
gripe about wasting bandwidth wastage again.  :-) :-)
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