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From: CSvax:Pucc-H:aeq@pur-ee.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: login prompt
Message-ID: <253@pucc-h>
Date: Sat, 27-Aug-83 13:29:03 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 27 13:29:03 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Aug-83 12:43:40 EDT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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My login prompt is actually quite dull, compared to most that have been
described herein.  It only tells me which of PUCC's machines I'm on and
what directory I'm in.  My .cshrc contains the following lines:

	set m=`where -m`
	alias sp 'set prompt="${m}:$cwd \\!> "'
	alias cd 'chdir \!*; sp'
	cd

I will admit filching this from a more experienced Unixite; I don't know csh
nearly well enough to have generated that <flame on> WRETCHEDLY, RIDICULOUSLY
MESSY, ARCHETYPALLY UNIX-ISH syntax! <flame off>

Of course, in my earliest days of using Unix (are netters legally required to
follow that term with "is a trademark..." or some abbreviation thereof?),
I had a much more "user-friendly" prompt, viz.

	Go away!

By the way, Laura Creighton, I did appreciate "tardy".	Subtle puns give me
an epicure's delight.

Lest you all think I spend all my time on the net, I'd better get back to
my real work, which at the moment is revising the introductory document for
the obsolescent terminal system on PUCC's CDC 6000 machines....

-- Jeff Sargent/pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq