KSH PSx won't quote exclamation points

[Darryl P. Wagoner]

> In the Korn Shell (ksh), I'm trying to set my PS1 to include my system-
> name and userid as     amdahl!krs     and no matter how I quote the
> exclamation, it gets interpreted as the command process number.  I even
> tried saving the desired string in another variable and just including
.
.
> 
> How can I get a real printable exclamation into a Prompt String????
> 
The way to do it is:

	PS1='amdahl!!krs'

Who would have guessed?
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