"Real" Shells

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Wed Feb 10 08:34:42 AEST 1988


In article <199 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>You recently posted that 
>	PS1="."
>displays the current directory "...with any real shell".  Since it doesn't
>work with the Bourne shell on SysV R3.0, I wonder what you mean by a "real
>shell", C shell only????
	Script started on Tue Feb  9 17:32:42 1988
	[env]SMOKE$ PS1="."
	.echo okay
	okay
	.exit
	script done on Tue Feb  9 17:33:00 1988

Sure seems to work.  Or maybe you don't appreciate the humor?



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