KSH PSx won't quote exclamation points

[Jan Steinman]

In article <3957 at amdahl.UUCP> krs at amdahl.UUCP (Kris Stephens) writes:
>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.

Try:  PS1=amdahl!!krs

Very Unix-like.  To rob a meta-character of its special properties, double it.

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