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Gordon Partridge

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Aug 17, 1983, 10:26:51 AM8/17/83
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Just to start a new game on the net-- what is your prompt (if not "%")?
Mine is "Your pleasure, your Worship?" My secretary has "Ooooohhhh, nooooo,
not tonight!"
Gordon Partridge, GenRad, Inc., Mail Stop 98, Route 117, Bolton, MA 01740

ka...@beesvax.uucp

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Aug 18, 1983, 7:20:42 AM8/18/83
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i vacilate between ARE WE NOT MEN? and WHO REALLY IS JOHN GALT?

Stanley T Shebs

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Aug 18, 1983, 2:50:44 PM8/18/83
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Don't have one myself, but one person here has the prompt 'HUH?'

stan the leprechaun hacker
ssc-vax!sts (soon utah-cs)

Tom Spuhler

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Aug 22, 1983, 5:29:24 PM8/22/83
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Humm, in regards to a discussion about prompts in net.singles, I suppose that
"Hi, whats your prompt?" is as good an opening line as "Hi, whats your sign?"
at least more orginal ( at least was ).

Tom Spuhler

r...@burl.uucp

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Aug 25, 1983, 3:44:11 PM8/25/83
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I run my terminal on inverse video, and my prompt used to be:

The MAD Programmer >

with the "MAD" part in inverse-blinking.

I have now gotten more mundane with:

esh[?]

where the ? is my depth level (in shells) starting with 0.
If I run an 'sh', the prompt comes back as:

sh[?]

with the proper depth level replacing the ?
This way, I always know whether or not I am in a subshell -- I escape
from the editor a lot and would forget to go back.

My secondary prompt is:

And?

BTW, these prompts (and the entire command line) are set for
double-width, single-height on my vt102 so it is easy to distinguish
commands from results.
--

The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3814 (Cornet 291)
alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ floyd sb1 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj

da...@bmcg.uucp

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Aug 26, 1983, 7:26:45 PM8/26/83
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Mine is "YES MASTER?
like to feel in charge,
dakid

za16ao

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Aug 30, 1983, 1:18:15 PM8/30/83
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Two prompts in my account;
if a friend logs on named, say, Aaron, it will ask for their name and
then spit out,

Yes, silly little Aaron? :

But if it's me...

Yes, sweet sexy nymph? :

ja...@uofm-cv.uucp

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Aug 30, 1983, 1:28:33 PM8/30/83
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My prompt character is my current directory name. Try the following alias,
which also lets you set up different environments in different directories:

alias cd ' set old=$cwd; chdir \!*; set prompt = "$cwd:t ! > ";
if (-o $old/.exit ) source $old/.exit; if (-o .enter ) source .enter'

What the heck has this to do with singles anyway?

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