Current directory in the ksh prompt?

[Odin Anderson]

In article <kLF411w164w at mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju at mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>I wrote:
>> I recently started using ksh, and one thing I miss dearly from csh is
>> the ability to put the current directory in your prompt.  With csh, it
>[...]
>
>Well, I've gotten many replies to this question.  The general idea is
>to create a function called "_cd" (or something similar), which does
>the actual cd and then resets the prompt, and then alias cd to this
>function. 

Isn't the folowing more simple while still doing what you want:
	 PS1=" \$PWD> "
This works well for me (I like the whole path).  

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