Prompt, etc.

[terryl at tekcrl.TEK.COM]

In article <392 at lscvax.UUCP> ram at lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) writes:
>Perhaps I didn't get the joke either, but 'set prompt = "."' doesn't
>work on this machine. We are running 4.3 BSD here and I am in csh. Also,
>PS1 = "." which is the same thing, doesn't work either. No big surprise
>there, I suspect. Any idea why?

     You answered your own question. It *was* supposed to be a joke. Remember,
in just about any UNIX system, "." refers to the current directory. Nowhere in
ANY of these postings did it say that "." would substitute the REAL ABSOLUTE
path name in a prompt. People just shouldn't take things so literal (especially
when talking to ANY kind of unix wizard; they have such a warped sense of
humor!!! (-:).

>While we are on the subject of things not working, I would like to know
>why I can't get my sysline to work. I am on a VT100 but I can't seem to
>get a sysline. Meanwhile, not an hour away, Dartmouth is also running
>what I believe to be the same version of Unix but they can get it to
>work. Is it me? Is it local? Am I a raving lunatic who doesn't have any
>idea what he is talking about or do I have a legitimate concern about
>world peace? Any help anyone can offer is and will be greatly
>appreciated.

     Probably the raving lunatic is more correct!!! (Insert MANY (-: here!!!).
Actually, look at the termcap entry (for BSD-type systems) or terminfo entry
(for Sys V-type systems) and see if they're different. It could be that the
entry for vt100 on your system doesn't describe the sysline capability, and
the other machine does.

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