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From: jeff@samna.UUCP (jeff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Changing the prompt in C shell
Keywords: SCO UNIX prompt csh cwd
Message-ID: <244@samna.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 17:44:33 GMT
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In article <254@unf7.UUCP> epate@unf7.UUCP (Ed Pate) writes:
>The prompt characters in standard Sys V are controlled by the shell variables 
>PS1 and PS2.
>PS1 is the standard prompt and PS2 is the secondary prompt (for when
>you didn;t enter all the required parameters and the program is
>asking for the rest)

I didn't see the original article, but the answers here don't match
the subject.  The information given above is applicable to the Bourne
shell NOT the C shell (I don't really know anything about ksh, so I
don't know whether it applies there or not).

The C shell uses:

set prompt="<Your prompt here>"

If you want it to be active for all instances of the C shell, the
set statement should go in $HOME/.cshrc

Jeff