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From: rostamia@umbc5.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
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Subject: Re: Prompt as Current Directory?
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Date: 16 Nov 89 12:42:16 GMT
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In article <Nov.16.00.56.12.1989.9985@paul.rutgers.edu> broadman@paul.rutgers.edu (Alan Broadman) writes:
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|I have a (hopefully) simple question. How can you get the UNIX prompt
|to always reflect the path to the current directory. Such a prompt
|would change with each 'cd ' command. In MS-DOS this is done by the
|command : 'prompt $P'. I think this would be most helpful, as
|otherwise, the prompt string is quite useless.
|

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