Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!ncar!gatech!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!cisunx!cmf From: cmf@cisunx.UUCP (Carl M. Fongheiser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Info on BRL shell Message-ID: <12748@cisunx.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 88 03:48:17 GMT References: <406@marob.MASA.COM> <8473@smoke.ARPA> <12192@steinmetz.ge.com> <3503@phri.UUCP> <8137@elsie.UUCP> Reply-To: cmf@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Carl M. Fongheiser) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys Lines: 16 In article <8137@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes: >One problem is that the decision can't be made in a vacuum. The manual >page for su(1) on our SunOS 4.0 system notes that > To remind the super-user of his responsibilities, > the shell substitutes `#' for '$' or '%' in its usual prompt. >If shells are set up to behave differently, the su(1) documentation becomes >incorrect. For that matter, the 7th edition man page for su(1) has a similar statement. How about the System V man pages? Carl Fongheiser University of Pittsburgh ...!pitt!cisunx!cmf cmf@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu cmf@pittunix.BITNET