Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!swlabs!jack From: jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: The whole prompt string thing (was: PS1 and the bourne shell...) Message-ID: <1410@swlabs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 03:27:05 EST Article-I.D.: swlabs.1410 Posted: Tue Dec 8 03:27:05 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 03:03:34 EST References: <305@caus-dp.UUCP> <1170001@otter.HP.COM> Organization: Software Labs, Ltd. Easton CT USA Lines: 16 In article <1170001@otter.HP.COM>, kers@otter.HP.COM (Christopher Dollin) writes: > ... why do people want to display the current directory in their prompt > string anyway? What am I missing? Is it really worth all the effort people > are devoting to it, or is it just the challenge of bending grotty pieces of > software to our needs that prvieds the attraction? I think that one reason for this is that the unix community is forever boasting how much better/easier-to-expand/more-modular their system is in comparison with others, especially that Messy-DOS stuff. Yet in DOS, to set the prompt to the current working directory (a sometimes convenient thing to do), one simply issues the command PROMPT $p. It is not quite as easy as this in unix. -- Jack Bonn, <> Software Labs, Ltd, Box 451, Easton CT 06612 uunet!swlabs!jack