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Date:      Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:42:00 -0400
From:      "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Cc:        gemork@online.no, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, francisco@natserv.com
Subject:   Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD?  :-)
Message-ID:  <199706190442.AAA06733@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199706190227.LAA24488@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Michael Smith on Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:57:46 %2B0930 (CST))

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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'...)



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