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From: woolsey@nsc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: prompt wars
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Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 12:54:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  9 12:54:29 1987
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Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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Keywords: tacky, garish

So, you want inverse video in a shell script, eh?  Try this:

# to underline the entire hostname is a bit of a challenge.
# it works with the history number because when underlining is set
# into the prompt, only one character is underlined.  csh later converts
# that to a number, and the start/end underline characters are intact
echo "set prompt='`hostname` \_\!_:_ '" | ul >! /tmp/$$
source /tmp/$$
rm /tmp/$$
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				Jeff Woolsey
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