On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:45:25 -0700 (PDT), Pramod Srinivasan
<pramodsri@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Is there any way a netbsd system can get into ">"
> prompt?

Were you typing into your shell?  Here's one way:

$ \ 
> echo hi \
> 
hi

For many shells, ">" is the default secondary prompt.  Cf. man sh or
whatever you're using.  

--jkl