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From: rns@se-sd.NCR.COM (Rick Schubert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do you tell a wizard?
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Date: 30 Oct 89 19:33:48 GMT
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In article <10242@encore.Encore.COM> jdarcy@encore.UUCP (Jeff d'Arcy) writes:
>kilroy@mimsy.umd.edu (Nancy's Fiance):
>> Actually it was:
>> % cat > vmunix.s

>Nope.  I don't think he was using csh.  More likely would be:

>$ cat > vmunix.s

If I remember correctly, the "%" prompt preceded the "$" prompt: it was the
default prompt for the Mashey shell, which was replaced by the Bourne shell.
I was never "root" back then, but I suspect that the default "root" prompt
was also "#".  So any prompts in this line of discussion should probably be
"#".

But the real question is: does a real wizard really need a prompt?

-- Rick Schubert (rns@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM)