Prompt as Current Directory?

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to rmg at ultra.com (Rich Geiger):
>Somehow
>  /usr/baziotes/projs/releases/source/lint/obj/debug/notes/private %
>as a prompt is somewhat irritating. Doesn't leave much space for
>typing a command, either!

Right.  That's why I've got the last two components of the path in my
prompt.  Using tcsh:

   alias precmd 'set _h=${cwd:h}; set prompt="%m {${_h:t}/${cwd:t}} % "'

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