Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Info on BRL shell Message-ID: <12192@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 20 Sep 88 20:37:02 GMT References: <406@marob.MASA.COM> <8473@smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 15 In article <8473@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) writes: | If the super-user's $PS1 does not end in "# ", it is appended as a | safety reminder. God save me from people who assume that I'm so stupid that I don't know how to set up a shell prompt, and who mess with my environment variables. Is this what UNIX is coming to? Please tell me that I'm not the only one who feels competent to decide how I set my prompt, for root or anyone else. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me