Caveat emptor: I haven't read all the messages on this thread. :)
But... I remember the VMS prompt being "$"... maybe some ancestry since VMS
dates back to 1970?
Gilles
2018-08-08 17:20 GMT+02:00 Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>:
From: Nemo
I will, no doubt, be flayed on this list but I
tend to use "=>".
Hey, if it works for you, go for it.
After the Nth time I got confused as to exactly which machine I was
typing to, I hacked the shell on my V6 Unix to read its prompt from
".profile". (Very clean, only one added line of code in the existing
code.)
Noel
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