ksh prompt settings

[devusr at relay-nswc.navy.mil]

C Hudson Hendren III <hudson at vsedev.vse.com> writes:
>I would like to have an exclamation point ("!") in my Korn shell prompt. 

try this:
PS1=$(uname -n)'\\!'$(logname)'{\!} '

disclaimer: i don't have a ksh, but quoting the !'s thusly gives the desired
results in my csh. 

/dave
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