RE: Unix question: how to display SID and path in prompt

but the syntax IS annoying and tedious at best. speaking as a *NIX bigot who landed a job with a fair share of legacy VMS work that needs doing.

it really pisses me off when i type SHOW SYSTEM/FULL instead of ps -efl on my sun box ;)

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[mailto:Scott.Shafer_at_dcpds.cpms.osd.mil] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:43 AM
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Oh I agree - it was a rock solid platform, but the syntax was annoying and tedious at best.

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210.581.6217

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> -- Scott.Shafer_at_dcpds.cpms.osd.mil
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> > Obviously. If you had worked on VMS, why would you want to emulate it?
>
> Actually the platform had a number of virtues -- file
> versions not the least, along with separate system access.
> DCL itself had some nice features, if they'd only added
> pipes it would've been equivalent to most *NIX shells w/
> the added benefit of lexical var's.
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