jfh@killer.UUCP (Working on a tan) (03/06/88)
In article <394@lscvax.UUCP> ram@lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) writes: >In article <3002@codas.att.com> mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) writes: >>In article <392@lscvax.UUCP> ram@lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) writes: >>> >>> Perhaps I didn't get the joke either, but 'set prompt = "."' [ ... ] >> >>The best joke to play on a novice: >> >>PS1="login: " >>-- >> Mikel Manitius >Now THAT one I like. >-- >- Kilroy ram@lscvax.UUCP I'm getting ready to add a Messy-DOS user to our P/95. I've considered setting his prompt to 'C>:' or something similiar (I'll have to look at what his PC displays, or putting him in csh and aliasing 'A:' to 'set prompt = 'A>: ' and 'C:' to 'set prompt = 'C>: '. The really fun part would be setting up a fake MS-DOS shell with lots of commands that don't do anything useful, and turning on XCASE so upper and lower case work _just_like_DOS_. Maybe I'll even turn of file name globbing ... - John. -- John F. Haugh II SNAIL: HECI Exploration Co. Inc. UUCP: ...!ihnp4!killer!jfh 11910 Greenville Ave, Suite 600 "You can't threaten us, we're Dallas, TX. 75243 the Oil Company!" (214) 231-0993 Ext 260