Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!splut!jay From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: recent postings to comp.sources.misc Message-ID: <572@splut.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 14:06:33 GMT References: <4491@csli.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 13 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? Because not everyone has access to the source of csh, which tcsh needs. For that matter, not everyone has access to anything but plain vanilla sh or csh. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | Never ascribe to malice that which can uucp: uunet!nuchat! | adequately be explained by stupidity. hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- {killer,bellcore}!tness1! | Birthright Party '88: let's get spaced!