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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: recent postings to comp.sources.misc
Message-ID: <8240@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 88 20:28:10 GMT
References: <4491@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: various_postings
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <4491@csli.STANFORD.EDU> by gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner):
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| I don't know how other people on the net think about this flood of prompt
| generators, each with some very special bells and whistles; in my opinion,
| there are too many! Why don't people wanting sophisticated prompt just use
| shells like tcsh which allow you to do really fancy things to your prompts?
+---------------

You ship me a BSD (and System V) source license and csh/tcsh sources, and
I'll run them.  Otherwise, the majority of prompt generators I've received
so far can be run on the csh that came with our System III system.

Note that not even all BSD sites have source.
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Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery			DELPHI: ALLBERY
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