bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) (06/03/90)
While playing around with SetPrompt, which allows multicolor/style prompts and CLI text/background combinations to be easily used, I found a combination I quite liked. This program, on exit, outputs the command line necessary to recreate the configuration set from within the (mouse-controlled) program. The command line utilizes Setprompt again, and does not go to ANSI sequences directly. However, it works, right? Well... My problem is that I can't get it to start up correctly. I put the command sequence in my shell-startup (which is getting BIG, geez). It is supposed to create a white prompt just like my usual one, yellow CLI text, on a black background (which looks very good on my light gray WB screen, suprisingly), but it doesn't. White prompt, yellow-on-black CLI text but the rest of the screen is the usual gray. When I type "clear" (using "alias clear echo "^L" noline" as has been gone over exhaustively here) it DOES work, setting the background of the whole window black. When I put "clear" as the last command of my shell-startup, it doesn't "catch". When I put the echo command in it's raw state at the end of the shell startup it still doesn't go. Basically, it seems as though I will have to type "clear" manually every time I start a CLI, which is unacceptable. I've tried running the echo command, and even runback, but no workie. Can anyone tell me how to make a black-background-with-yellow- text-and-a-white-prompt come up on a shell at startup time? I'm using (among other things) ASH, the ARP shell, MachII v2.5a because I don't like 2.6, and CB 1.1. In other news, I have heard that a company will demo a new product at the impending CES: An IBM compatible computer which can play Nintendo cartridges. To quote David Letterman: "Civilization as we know it is coming to an end." . <<<<Infinite K>>>> -- |Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver| |Internet bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu, FIDO 1:104/421.2 or Arvada 68K (303)424-9831| |"My brothers and sisters all hated me,'cause I was an only child!"-Weird Al| |"Do I detect the smell of burning martyr?" - Basil Fawlty | *AMIGA POWER* |