Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!mtune!whuts!picuxa!gp From: gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: The whole prompt string thing (was: PS1 and the bourne shell...) Message-ID: <407@picuxa.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 87 14:03:28 GMT References: <305@caus-dp.UUCP> <1170001@otter.HP.COM> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Parsippany NJ Lines: 10 In article <1170001@otter.HP.COM>, kers@otter.HP.COM (Christopher Dollin) writes: > But ... why do people want to display the current directory in their prompt > string anyway? It is basically an easy way to always know where you are. > are devoting to it, or is it just the challenge of bending grotty pieces of > software to our needs that prvieds the attraction? Yes! :-)