Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ptsfa!varian!vaxwaller!richc
From: richc@vaxwaller.UUCP (Rich Commins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Planning for Shell 20.8M
Summary: Shell question
Message-ID: <1429@vaxwaller.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 23:33:15 GMT
References: <8801221705.AA20640@decwrl.dec.com>
Organization: Varian Instruments, Walnut Creek CA
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In article <8801221705.AA20640@decwrl.dec.com>, drew@cgofs.dec.com (Steve Drew) writes:
> 
> 	First of all there is no Shell 2.08M, yet.

	I've been using your shell and think it's great. Looks just like
	my Unix environment at work.  At work, I customize my prompt so
	the prompt increments with my history variable. It looks like
	this....
			(1) > command 1
			(2) > command 2
			(3) > command 3
			(4) >
			etc.

	I use this information from my prompt to reference the history file.
	My question is "can I customize the prompt in the shell to do the
	same thing"?  In Matt's version of the shell he executed a command
	script.  Any help with this would be appreciated.  Also it doesn't
	seem obvious to me how the variables work with the alias commands.
	Could you elaborate on their usage (Yes I've read the readme.doc's)

				Thanks,

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