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From: tneff@well.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX prompts (-ksh)
Summary: not even ksh is completely consistent
Message-ID: <11080@well.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 89 21:11:52 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@well.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Actually not even the classic Korn shell solution of

	export PS1='$PWD> '

seems to work everywhere.  On about half the machines I visit, if you
try this you get a literal prompt of $PWD> -- i.e., the string isn't
interpreted before display.  I have never been too scientific about why
this is, since it's not all that important to me, but I think most of
the trouble has been on BSD implementations of ksh.  Perhaps there's
something in the BSD port that broke this.
-- 
Tom Neff                  tneff@well.UUCP
                       or tneff@dasys1.UUCP