Dave -- ...and then Dave Pearson said... % % On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:38:57PM -0500, David T-G wrote: % > ... % > % 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> ... % % 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.
Ah. I misunderstood your statement 'the last character of the prompt hasn't been ">" for that length of time' to say that, since 1991, the last character of the prompt has been something other than ">". It looks clear to me, but I guess that's not what you were saying. % % > 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. I wasn't sure whether it went to $n$g or $p$g with 3.x; I know it was just C> instead of C:\> around those days... % % -- % 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 :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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