Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!botter!ark.cs.vu.nl!maart From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: A blank line before the unix prompt? Keywords: prompt Message-ID: <1367@ark.cs.vu.nl> Date: 11 Aug 88 22:30:27 GMT References: <3809@okstate.UUCP> <6591@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1236@ficc.UUCP> <166@dcs.UUCP> Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 9 In article <166@dcs.UUCP> wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes: \2. No, csh does not like a newline (even disguised, escaped or quoted) in an \ alias definition. Try the following: Not true: you just have to escape it twice. See my previous posting on this subject. -- If you enjoyed the recent heat wave, |Maarten Litmaath @ Free U Amsterdam: you'll certainly like the ozone gap...|maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart