[402] in athena10
Re: Shell prompt (was Re: Adding software "to the release")
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Aug 11 13:28:29 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Kenneth Charles Arnold <kcarnold@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:27:43 -0400
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On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 00:34 -0400, Kenneth Charles Arnold wrote:
> (Finally an excuse to bring it up): The first prompt is far better than
> the second one. What will be the default prompt for ath10?
For tcsh users, the default prompt will be "athena% ". For bash users,
"username@hostname:dir$ " or whatever the system default is.
The current plan is to make bash the default shell for new users next
year. (Thinking about this, probably Jan 1 2009 is a good time to throw
the switch.)
