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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
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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
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