[PD] (OT) Terminal OSX Stuff

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

You could also make the change system wide in /etc/hostconfig bu  
changing:

HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-

to:

HOSTNAME=patrick

or whatever you want to name your computer.

.hc

On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 01:48 Europe/Brussels, Patrick Pagano  
wrote:

> 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!
>>
>> --  
>> Nick Morrison : nickm at internode.com.au
>> Internode : http://www.internode.on.net/
>>
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>>
>
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