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From: noorm@scsn.net (MN)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Path in prompt !!?? help!
Date: 17 May 1996 13:28:19 GMT
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I would like to know that too.

In article <DrG8vz.HCE@student.twi.tudelft.nl>, star says...
>
>Hi, this may be a dumb question but I have recently installed FreeBSD 
2.05
>and I wonder how to get my prompt to display the current directory !
>I have tried things like (from the top of my head) :
>
>set prompt = "$cwd -> "
>
>this sets the prompt to the directory I'm currently in but doesn't 
change when
>I move to a different directory !
>
>Please help, and if you can, also send your reply to me through 
e-mail.
>Thanks!!
>My e-mail address is : s795238@dutiwy.twi.tudelft.nl
>
>Ciao,
>Menno
>