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Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD?  :-)
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   From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
   Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:57:46 +0930 (CST)

   set prompt=`hostname -s`:%~\>

Something to try sometime: install GNU hostname in the PATH
before the *bsd version of hostname.  Use that to set root's
prompt.  It has a very different effect than what you would
expect.  After logining in as root with the prompt configured
like that, the output of `hostname' will be `-s'...

(Yes, your hostname gets set to `-s'...)