Chris Jewell wrote:
> > in other words, the section below is almost the correct solution.  here's
> > the better one:
> > 
> > alias reprompt      'set prompt=`echo $cwd`"% "'
> > alias cd    'cd \!*; reprompt'
> > 
> 
> When I do this I get an error that a variable must start with a letter.
> It does not recognize $cwd as a command.  I also tried to alias 'echo
> $cwd' to one word and when I use it in the set prompt it just prints the
> alias as the prompt.  I know that this can be done in a csh but I don't
> know how and it is getting frustrating!!!!

It works just fine for me.  Are you sure that you got the `'s and ''s
correctly there?

Someone else posted a solution with far prettier results last night, tho.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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