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From: jfh@killer.UUCP (Working on a tan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: DOS USERS (was: Re: Prompt Games)
Message-ID: <3601@killer.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 10:15:15 GMT
References: <2336@tekcrl.TEK.COM> <3002@codas.att.com> <394@lscvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@killer.UUCP (Working on a tan)
Organization: in the middle of the desert
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Summary: MS-DOS for UNIX ...

In article <394@lscvax.UUCP> ram@lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) writes:
>In article <3002@codas.att.com> mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) writes:
>>In article <392@lscvax.UUCP> ram@lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) writes:
>>>
>>> Perhaps I didn't get the joke either, but 'set prompt = "."' [ ... ]
>>
>>The best joke to play on a novice:
>>
>>PS1="login: "
>>-- 
>>					Mikel Manitius
>Now THAT one I like.
>-- 
>- Kilroy                                                 ram@lscvax.UUCP

I'm getting ready to add a Messy-DOS user to our P/95.  I've considered
setting his prompt to 'C>:' or something similiar (I'll have to look
at what his PC displays, or putting him in csh and aliasing 'A:' to
'set prompt = 'A>: ' and 'C:' to 'set prompt = 'C>: '.

The really fun part would be setting up a fake MS-DOS shell with lots
of commands that don't do anything useful, and turning on XCASE so
upper and lower case work _just_like_DOS_.

Maybe I'll even turn of file name globbing ...

- John.
-- 
John F. Haugh II                  SNAIL:  HECI Exploration Co. Inc.
UUCP: ...!ihnp4!killer!jfh                11910 Greenville Ave, Suite 600
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