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Subject: Re: Login prompt - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 19-Aug-83 18:50:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 19 18:50:43 1983
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ima!johnl    Aug 19 17:43:00 1983

***** ima:general / ism70!chris /  5:49 pm  Aug 17, 1983
Well, i started under V6, so i got use to "% " as the prompt.
Somehow it just ain't unix without it. So as i've moved to
other and better versions of unix, my prompt has stayed "% ".

Once in italy i did make my prompt "Yoda sez " to show how
prompts could be changed, but nobody there had seen Star Wars,
so the joke went flat.

I think the best prompt string joke was perpetrated here by
one of the hackers on another. He changed her prompt string
(in her login profile) from "% " to "%  ". He did this
when she left the terminal logged in for a minute. Took her
about a month to figure it out. She like to killed him when
she figured it out. It didn't lead to romance, but it was still
a good joke.

			chris