Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!dcs!wnp
From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: "Real" Shells
Summary: Wasn't that a joke ?
Keywords: PS1 values
Message-ID: <9@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 15:14:01 GMT
References: <199@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
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Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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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????
|

I THINK this was supposed to be a joke. If you set PS1=".", your prompt
will be ".", and "." on UNIX is ALWAYS the current directory :-) ...

This works with the Bourne shell on SysVR3, only its not very informative.