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From: daffner@ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Mr. Loony)
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Subject: Prompts and cwd...
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Date: 1 Nov 90 19:22:45 GMT
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I have the following in my .login to put the cwd in the prompt:

set prompt="gn:$cwd ->"
alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="gn:$cwd ->"'

  If your system does not set cwd, then simply replace $cwd with `pwd`

I have used both at one point or another, and they have worked...
Hope this helps...

    Larry 

daffner@ecn.purdue.edu