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From: marcos@caus-dp.UUCP (Marcos R. Della)
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Subject: The whole prompt string thing (was: PS1 and the bourne shell...)
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Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 13:41:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 30 13:41:51 1987
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In article <207@jc3b21.UUCP>, jra@jc3b21.UUCP (Jay R. Ashworth) writes:
> In article <9354@ufcsv.cis.ufl.EDU>, esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu
> > In article <137@anumb.UUCP> eao@anumb.UUCP (e.a.olson) writes:
> > >	no - cd is done in the shell itself.    Not the kernel.
> > >	Well, of course, everything interesting is done in the kernel;
> > >					eric olson, ihnp4!mvuxq!eao
> > 
> > What you need to do is modify it (bourne shell) to evaluate that variable
> > each time it uses it. Best-o-Luck.
> > Eric S. Johnson II Internet: esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu University of Florida 
> 
> ... I may get the chance to play with all this here
> in a while, but if anyone can save me the trouble, go right ahead.

Well, after mounds of responses from lots of people (I think that we have
around 30+ messages on this subject floating around) and lots of mail from
all over the place, so far we have gotten...

...nowhere. 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?

We have tried everything that has come over the net, put some together,
taken others apart, mishmashed them all around and come up with the big
zilch on this problem. I never realized that this would become such a
problem. So...

Are there any OTHER suggestions that might shed some light on the matter?

Marcos Della
Daniel Harris

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