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From: cs9h7atw@cybaswan.UUCP (Alex Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Time in prompt?
Keywords: problems problems!
Message-ID: <512@cybaswan.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 89 11:13:44 GMT
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In article <1106@ucrmath.UCR.EDU> yakker@bartok.UUCP (The Rastafari Yakker) writes:
>There are a number of ways to put the time into the prompt,
>
>          set prompt = "(`date '+%H:%M:%S'`):  "
>
>This works, but the time isn't updated.  The C shell has to be reset
>in order to update the time.  If you wanted to constantly update the
>time, you would have to run a constant (C) shell in the background that
>runs a command and then updates the prompt time.
>
> 
>      set prompt = "(`date '+%H:%M:%S'`):  "
>      alias cd 'chdir \!*; set prompt = "(`date '+%H:%M:%S'`):  "'
>
>Other than this, I don't know of another way to correctly change the
>time without creating another shell in the background and making it 
>more of a bother than checking your watch.
>

Yes, this is my problem and I agree about the watch bit but don`t own one!
(Send flames to West Glamorgan County Council Grants Dept. :-( ! )
Ok, so how do I set a vt220's time to be system time on my login?

						Alex

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Alex Williams:	 Department of Computer Scence, University College Swansea,
		 	Singleton Park, Swansea, Wales.