[1679] in testers
Re: Customizing one's prompt on the RS6000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 31 21:50:36 1991
From: lwvanels@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 91 21:50:46 -0400
To: nschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [1656]
Reply-To: lwvanels@mit.edu
>The line
>
> set prompt = '[%c] athena%'
>
>in my .cshrc.mine file doesn't work on the RS6000. Instead, I get the prompt
>
> [%c]
The reason for this is that %c is a formatting command recognized by the
Athena version of tcsh; it is not feature of most versions of csh. Because
of the desire to not modify the vendor supplied operation system on the new
platforms, "/bin/csh" on the RS/6000 has been left as the vendor supplied
it, it does not recognize your prompt setting command (among other
differences). However, work is being done on porting a version of tcsh with
the Athena enhancements to the rios, and we hope to provide this version of
tcsh as /bin/athena/tcsh on all platforms in a future release. In the
meantime, however, this is a difference that will need to be documented.
-Lucien
