Multiscreens - which one is active?

[Stuart Lynne]

In article <1472 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <637 at holston.UUCP>, barton at holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) writes:
>
>|  While were wishing, how about adding a status window or line to the 
>|  console so the console user knows what multiscreen he's on at
>|  a glance?
>
>  I hate to suggest anything so simple, but I have been making the
>screen# part of my prompt. I don't want to give up a line for status.

I've been doing that for years, here's some decripit cshrc script you can
use, it gives you your tty number, history line number and either a '%' or a
'*' depending on whether you are root or not.

E.g.
	01-45 %
	02-10 * 

Additions for .cshrc script

	set tty=`tty`
	set basetty=`basename $tty`
	set basetty=`expr $basetty : '...\(..\)'`
	set idgid=`id`
	if ( $idgid[1] == "uid=0(root)" ) then
	set prompt="$basetty-\! * "
	else
	set prompt="$basetty-\! % "
	endif


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