Re: Personalized Prompts

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From: Mitchell..Wright
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 17:13

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scott@apollo.drexel.edu (Scott Smith) writes:

>I have been trying to design a prompt that includes the time of day, which
>I have found to be useful in some situations (for instance, if you are
>waiting for a process to complete, you can glance at the command line to
>see when the command was executed; and if somebody leaves a terminal idle
>but logged in, you can see instantly how long they have been gone [thereby
>gaioning possible justification for kicking them off and taking over that
>[...]

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