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From: jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fun with prompts!
Summary: Clever prompt hack...
Message-ID: <9026@gryphon.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 88 06:18:12 GMT
References: <9980@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow)
Organization: Wizardess Designs, Hermosa Beach, Ca.
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In article <9980@watdragon.waterloo.edu> bmacintyre@watsol.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes:
>Something neat I discovered and thought I'd pass on ...
>
>If you look in the sample shell.startup in the 1.3 S: dir, there are
>2 aliases specified ... reverse and normal ... which change the screen
>to white and back to blue ( assuming normal colours )
>
>  prompt "*E[33m[*E[31m%S*[33m]*E31m >"
>
Ah well, podnah how about trying this one?
"prompt "*E[43m{@_@} %N*E[42m%c*E[0m*N*E[42m %g*E[0m "
I use that'n with wshell. It works just fine. (Actually I have the *E's replaced
with actual escape characters in my script that starts this whole mess...)

Me do something silly? Moi!

-- 
Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit.
Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one.

{@_@}
	jdow@bix (where else?)		Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes
	jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM		the knight. Does the fair maiden ever
	{backbone}!gryphon!jdow		win? Surely both the knight and dragon
					stink. Maybe the maiden should suicide?
					Better yet - she should get an Amiga and					quit playing with dragons and knights.