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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:56:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: Mike Coffey & Yvonne Shevnin <mikec@mediacity.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: How to make current directory show at the commandline?
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On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> If you're using tcsh, try this in your .cshrc file :
> 
> set prompt=`hostname -s`:%~\>
> 
> Read the tcsh manual page for more details.

    You should do that, Mike.  :)  tcsh adds a bunch of new $prompt
tokens.  %m expands to the hostname, for example.  My tcsh prompt is a
nice two-liner.  I like to see the full cwd, but still have lots of
room to type on the command line.

set prompt='\n%B[%T]%m:%/%b\n<%h> '

... giving you this:

[13:54]zot:/u/staff/taob/News/alt/comp/periphs/mainboard/asus
<355> 

    The first line is in bold text too.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"