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Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD?  :-)
In-Reply-To: <199706190227.LAA24488@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jun 19, 97 11:57:46 am"
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Michael Smith writes:
> Geir Eivind Mork stands accused of saying:
>> But I was using 4os/2 as my primary shell in Os/2, how can I emulate
>> it's features (except alias) in BSD (I use the standar shell in
>> BSD).. Like the TAB feature, the doskey-alike feature (browse
>> previous commands) etc.
>
> 4os2/4dos/etc inherit heavily from bash/tcsh.  Either of these shells
> are, in most regards, vastly superior due at least in part to the
> environment.
>
>> And btw; Can I use some sort of macro in the prompt ? Like I did in
>> dos/4os? Like the famous $p$g? I haven't figured out something like
>> that from the man(uals)
>
> Here is my prompt (for tcsh), nothing fancy :
>
> set prompt=`hostname -s`:%~\>

Ah.  Now I'm going to have to publish mine for bash, too.  This is the
one you'll see in the FreeBSD book:

   PS1="=== \u@\h (`tty`) \w \# -> "
   PS2="\u@\h \w \! ++ "

PS1 is used for primary prompts, and PS2 is used for continuations.

Greg