On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:38:57PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > Dave -- > > % Sort of. The default prompt of the default shell on WinDOS has always > % used the ">" character. Personally I haven't used the default shell of > % WinDOS since about 1991 and the last character of the prompt hasn't been > % ">" for that length of time. > > I beg to differ. The old DOS prompt was just > ($g) and then became C> > ($n$g) -- before anyone had second hard drives. There are a number of > variables used (b,d,e,g,l,m,n,p,q,t,v) that can be put together how you > wish.
That's agreeing with me, not differing with me. I said "used", I didn't say "was only". We're on about the terminating character here. > These days, the default prompt is $p$g, which gives you the path and the > greater symbol. It's been that since at least DOS 6 and I'd bet a Twinkie > since DOS 3.3. I can probably remember as far back as about DOS 3.1 and the default prompt of the default shell was $p$g. -- Dave Pearson: | mutt.octet.filter - autoview octet-streams http://www.davep.org/ | mutt.vcard.filter - autoview simple vcards Mutt: | muttrc2html - muttrc -> HTML utility http://www.davep.org/mutt/ | muttrc.sl - Jed muttrc mode
