Pathname in prompt, not FAQ, really.

[Scott A.C. McIntyre]

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Im interested in finding out how I can get a Sys V type machine to 
include my cwd in my prompt...Currently, what it does is what was
suggested by the FAQ sheet that someone sent out a while ago, however,
I was wondering if there was a better way..

Namely, when I am in my home directory I want it to display a ~ 
instead of the path of my whole directory...secondly, I would like a
prompt which when I hit cd and return would send me $home and change
my prompt back to ~

Once upon a time in tcsh in BSD 4.3 I was able to use dirs in the prompt
command...whenever I do that here, it ALWAYS returns a ~, which doesn't
really help much...

And trying to just cd to get home gives me a no such file error...

Suggestions?  

Thanks,
Scott

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