[TUHS] Origins of shell prompt suffixes % $ > #

[Gilles Gravier]

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 at 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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