From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!sri-unix!fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  csh: pre-prompt execution
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.751
Posted: Fri Mar  4 09:27:12 1983
Received: Fri Apr  1 05:55:18 1983

From:  Fred Blonder <fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay>

From: hplabs!hao!seismo!dmy@UCB-C70
	
	I too want csh to "do something" just prior to each prompt. . . .

How about evaluting the $prompt string each time csh wants to generate a
prompt? That way you could generate your own wierd and varying prompts in
addition to executing commands.