On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:37:12AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> Dave --
> 
> % 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.

You're missing the start of the sentence that you're quoting from, the part
that talks about how I don't use the default WinDOS shell. Hint: WinDOS
imposes your choice of command line shell in just about the same way that
(for example) GNU/Linux does.

-- 
Dave Pearson:                   |     lbdb.el - LBDB interface.
http://www.davep.org/           |  sawfish.el - Sawfish mode.
Emacs:                          |  uptimes.el - Record emacs uptimes.
http://www.davep.org/emacs/     | quickurl.el - Recall lists of URLs.

Reply via email to