From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 17 8:44:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (ip-61-024.guate.net [200.12.61.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BAD71515D for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 08:44:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id JAA02480; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:46:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:46:49 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla To: Steve Hovey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solicitud de Ayuda Message-ID: <19990417094649.B1807@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: <199904160621.LAA22506@uazuay.edu.ec> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Steve Hovey on Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 12:31:23PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 12:31:23PM -0400, Steve Hovey wrote: > This email is sent as a proposition to obtain help about the proper use of > PS3 and PS4 in the prompt as in, for example the PS2 that you see when I > use the instruction for the PS1 prompt like this: > > $for > >xx > > I think what he's asking is: I know PS1 is my shell prompt and PS2 is the "other prompt" but i've seen PS3 and PS4 mentioned somewhere in the documentation and don't know when would I see those being used... That's my guess... as for the answer... well, i've never messed with anything but PS1 and mostly use tcsh, so set prompt= stuff is what i use. regards, -oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message