[PD] (OT) Terminal OSX Stuff

[Patrick Pagano]

thanks nick
it was hiding in my ~/.profile
cheers~

Pat


On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 01:23  AM, Nick Morrison wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:09:54PM -0500, Patrick Pagano said:
>> hi
>>
>> i am hoping there are a few OS X users on this list that might be able
>> to help me with one annoying thing
>> that i can't seem to track down.
>> When i run terminal
>>
>> i have
>>
>> [patrickp at Patrick-Paganos-Computer patrickp]$
>>
>>
>> which is like 3/4 of the way across terminal so i am incessantly
>> resizing
>> Does anyone know how to get rid of this and just have a prompt?
>> I looked all over but can't seem to nip it.
>>
>>
>> thanks in advance and sorry for the OT
>
> You'll probably need to set your "PROMPT" or "PROMPT1" environment
> variable.  This depends on your shell - it's possibly tcsh, cuz osx is
> freebsd-based (a wild guess), in which case putting something like:
>
>  set prompt = '%n %B%/%b %# '
>
> in .tcshrc in your home directory will make you happier.
>
>
> Nick!
>
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