You are correct, sir!

Momentary loss of brain wave activity.  It never worked under 1.14 
because I just recently got a working X server.  Hence I never would have 
known whether it worked or not.  All my VC logins *were* login 
shells...duh! 

Thanks to your pointers, the O'Reilly bash book, and my own /etc/profile 
which I'd hacked once before I got the prompt to give me what I wanted..,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on one line and working directory on another line.

For those interested this does what I wanted:  PS1='<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>\n<`pwd`>\$'

Thanks joost (and one other helpful responder-sorry deleted your mail 
before engaging my brain).

                                 kfh

On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:

> > Question 1:  since this used to work under bash 1.14, I presume it's 
> > related to bash 2.00's posix compliance, but what 2.00 convention have I 
> > broke?  Where should I put the matching `'' to get the same functionality 
> > as before?
> 
> Well, I seriously doubt if this worked under bash 1.14: you're messing
> up the quotes. Eighter you want:
> 
> PS1="\u\'@'\h\n\w"
> 
> or you want
> 
> PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> 
> (I guess the latter). What you've got now is simply a unfished string.
> 
> > Question 2:  Why doesn't the error occur in the default xterm.  After all 
> > that isn't a login shell...is it?
> 
> Login shells parse ~/.bash_login, non-login shells (in xterm) parse
> ~/.bash_rc.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
> $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
> lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
> #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
> 


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