Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!uwmacc!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!randy
From: randy@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Randy Orrison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: The whole prompt string thing (was: PS1 and the bourne shell...)
Message-ID: <3045@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 16:49:09 EST
Article-I.D.: umn-cs.3045
Posted: Wed Dec  2 16:49:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 02:32:57 EST
References: <279@caus-dp.UUCP> <1311@puff.wisc.edu> <137@anumb.UUCP> <207@jc3b21.UUCP> <305@caus-dp.UUCP> <6773@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison)
Organization: UofM Math Department
Lines: 29
Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:5757 comp.unix.questions:5174

In article <6773@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <305@caus-dp.UUCP> marcos@caus-dp.UUCP (Marcos R. Della) writes:
>>... There are lots of interesting ideas and designs, but so far,
>>nothing is working on this little problem. Has anyone out there actually
>>done this and gotten it to work?
>
>Dammit, didn't you read my posting?  We do this all the time here.
>I explained what is required and don't feel like repeating myself.

Come on people, settle down.  The problem is obvious:

Marcos has an older version of the bourne shell.

	Marcos:  YOU CAN'T DO IT.  Get a newer version of sh or get ksh or
		 get csh.

	Doug:	 SETTLE DOWN.  The poor guy doesn't know why what everyone
		 says works won't work for him.  Give him a break.

I haven't heard anyone talking about versions of sh or ksh here.  What versions
of each are needed to do these things?  Obviously, all versions don't do command
evaluation or variable substitution when displaying the prompt.

	-randy
-- 
Randy Orrison, University of Minnesota School of Mathematics  | May the smiley
UUCP:	{ihnp4, seismo!rutgers, sun}!umn-cs!randy	      |      O__\,
ARPA:	randy@ux.acss.umn.edu		BITNET: randy@umnacca |      O  /'
Disclaimer:  No one is silly enough to pay me to do this.     |  be with you!