KSH PSx won't quote exclamation points

[Bradley S. Brahms]

In article <3957 at amdahl.UUCP> krs at amdahl.UUCP (Kris Stephens) writes:
>In the Korn Shell (ksh), I'm trying to set my PS1 to include my system-
>name and userid as     amdahl!krs     and no matter how I quote the
>exclamation, it gets interpreted as the command process number.  I even
>tried saving the desired string in another variable and just including
>the variable in the PS description.  Samples:

>How can I get a real printable exclamation into a Prompt String????

Try PS1='amdahl!!krs'

It works.

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