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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Multiscreens - which one is active?
Keywords: who
Message-ID: <42@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 89 00:31:04 GMT
References: <11@dynasys.UUCP> <55@gutarman.UUCP> <637@holston.UUCP> <1472@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <1472@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <637@holston.UUCP>, barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) writes:
>
>|  While were wishing, how about adding a status window or line to the 
>|  console so the console user knows what multiscreen he's on at
>|  a glance?
>
>  I hate to suggest anything so simple, but I have been making the
>screen# part of my prompt. I don't want to give up a line for status.

I've been doing that for years, here's some decripit cshrc script you can
use, it gives you your tty number, history line number and either a '%' or a
'*' depending on whether you are root or not.

E.g.
	01-45 %
	02-10 * 

Additions for .cshrc script

	set tty=`tty`
	set basetty=`basename $tty`
	set basetty=`expr $basetty : '...\(..\)'`
	set idgid=`id`
	if ( $idgid[1] == "uid=0(root)" ) then
	set prompt="$basetty-\! * "
	else
	set prompt="$basetty-\! % "
	endif


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