A blank line before the unix prompt?

[Ilhamuddin Ahmed]

In article <3809 at okstate.UUCP> Ashok writes 
>
>Is it possible to make echo " " a part of the unix prompt? My objective
>is to print a blank line before a prompt to improve clarity of the output
>from the previous unix command. The example follows:
>	%
>	% ls
>	  <output of "ls" command>
>	% <blank line>
>	% <now cursor is here>
>
>Will appreciate the response. Thanks!  -- Ashok


If you are using csh or tcsh then you can simply do this by adding the
following in your .cshrc (or .tcshrc) or by manually typing it in 
[Ugh :-] 

set prompt = "% \
% "

Please note that there is no space after the '\'. This way, you can have
multiple-line prompts.

						- Ilham


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