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From: clercqm@nijmeg (Marien de Clercq)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: ksh prompt
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.180408.26450@nijmeg>
Date: 12 Mar 91 18:04:08 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.234706.15343@cbnewsk.att.com>
Organization: Intergraph Nijmegen
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noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer) writes:

>Thanks to Ihor Kinal, I've set PS1 so that it prints in reverse video on
>my terminal.  This is what I have in my .profile:

>           export RMSO=`tput rmso`
>           export SMSO=`tput smso`
>           export PS1='${SMSO}${SYSNAME} ${PWD#HOME/}-> ${RMSO} '

I don't know if you use the environment variables RMSO and SMSO again at 
other places, but if you don't, why bother defining them if you could the 
same with:

           PS1=`tput smso`'${SYSNAME} ${PWD#HOME/}-> '`tput rmso`

(I don't know why you should export PS1, I never did)

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Marien de Clercq

Intergraph European Mfg. bv.
Nijmegen - The Netherlands

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