[403] in athena10
Re: Shell prompt (was Re: Adding software "to the release")
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Mon Aug 11 15:07:28 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:06:39 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Is this something we should consider for incoming students NOW, or do
we need more lead time to do the work and push out the documentation?
-Bill
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On Aug 11, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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.)
>
>
