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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Virtual terminals
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.172021.3454@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 29 Oct 90 17:20:21 GMT
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In article <1990Oct27.191111.9448@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:

>1)  How do I change the prompt that appears in a virtual terminal?

>2)  How do I export my login environment (or modify the default one)
>when I start a new VT?

If you just execute vtlmgr in your .profile, you will automatically get
a new shell with your login environment whenever you switch to a
new VT, with a prompt of "VT n> ", n being the number of the VT for
that session.  If you run ksh (and have ALTSHELL=YES in /etc/defaults/login)
you can probably do some tricks in the .kshrc if you want something
different at start-up.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us