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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: "Real" Shells
Keywords: PS1 values
Message-ID: <7234@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 9 Feb 88 22:34:42 GMT
References: <199@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <199@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>You recently posted that 
>	PS1="."
>displays the current directory "...with any real shell".  Since it doesn't
>work with the Bourne shell on SysV R3.0, I wonder what you mean by a "real
>shell", C shell only????
	Script started on Tue Feb  9 17:32:42 1988
	[env]SMOKE$ PS1="."
	.echo okay
	okay
	.exit
	script done on Tue Feb  9 17:33:00 1988

Sure seems to work.  Or maybe you don't appreciate the humor?