Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!aimed!nick
From: nick@aimed.UUCP (Nick Pemberton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: about setting that prompt for csh...
Message-ID: <7431@aimed.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 89 21:45:13 GMT
Organization: AIM, Inc, Toronto, Ontario
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I have a possibly interesting (but more likely silly :-) problem setting
my prompt for the csh.

In .login, after the TERMCAP entry is set, I have the following lines:

set invs=`tput smso`
set inve=`tput rmso`
alias sp 'set pwd=`pwd`'
alias cd 'cd \!* ; sp ; set prompt = "$invs$home:t: \! $pwd $inve"'
cd

I have to use the slightly inefficient sp alias because I don't have the
built in $cwd variable. Now, I used invs and inve to set the standout
mode and to end it. I 'programmed' this when logged in remotely, on a
wyse50 (using the wy50 termtype). This worked just fine, and I get
a nice standout prompt like

nick: nn /u/nick/mywork 

in reduceded inverse.

But then, when I looked in on the console at work, the variables
invs and inve are empty. (term type = ansi).

I suspected the TERMCAP entry, so I tried

tput smso

at the shell prompt. Worked just fine.

So why doesn't it work as part of .login?

BTW, this is an SCO XENIX 386 (2.3.???), on an Intel 386, if that
helps.

Nick

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