bard@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bard Bloom) (12/08/87)
> But ... why do people want to display the current directory in their prompt > string anyway? What am I missing? Is it really worth all the effort people > are devoting to it, or is it just the challenge of bending grotty pieces of > software to our needs that prvieds the attraction? I often have half a dozen windows onto half a dozen machines, and half a dozen people trying to get me to do things for them. I need all the help keeping this stuff straight that I can get. -- Bard Bloom
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (12/13/87)
In article <10738@brl-adm.ARPA> bard@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bard Bloom) writes: >I often have half a dozen windows onto half a dozen machines, and half a >dozen people trying to get me to do things for them. I need all the help >keeping this stuff straight that I can get. Exactly right. This makes the suggestion that it's based on some kind of MS-DOS jealousy appear especially ludicrous -- imagine trying to explain what this kind of environment is like to an MS-DOS user.