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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: csh prompt setting within a c-program
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Date: 30 Jan 89 21:10:41 GMT
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Reply-To: gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner)
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I don't like the idea of setting the csh prompt that way but there is not
too much of a choice here.

How about

	if ( -f ~/.promptdef ) then
		source ~/.promptdef
	endif

in your .cshrc (inside the interactive part). You could write arbitrary
command into that file, and could have them executed every time a csh is
fired up. Oh, you don't want it to be every time? Just set some environment
variable USE_PROMPTDEF to, say, YES, and include a

		unsetenv USE_PROMPTDEF

after the source command.

I know, it's a weird way of accomplishing the task, but probably general
enough, and it works.

If you want to hardwire the prompt, you don't need the "source...", just
put you prompt definition here.

-- 
Juergen Wagner		   			gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
						 wagner@arisia.xerox.com