PROMPT

[Caren Alink]

In article <21262 at adm.BRL.MIL> shahryar at sutro.sfsu.edu (Shahryar G. Hashemi) writes:
>I have a question about setting up my prompt in UNIX.  In DOS you can a:
>PROMPT $P$G
>and it will automaticaly change my prompt when I change to a new directory.
>
>I would like to know how to do this same command in UNIX.  I have tried 
>alias {but no good man pages}.  Could someone out there please help me.

Try putting:

PS1='"$PWD" > '

in your .profile file.