Re: Getting custom prompts to work under v1.3.1

[David Blackman <david@whizziwig.com>]

you're using bash?

if you are go into the bash man page and search (that /) for ps1,
here are all the bindings anyway, 
in your .bash_profile put
	export PS1="[some escape key sequences and some static chars]"

            \a     an ASCII bell character (07)
              \d     the  date  in  "Weekday  Month  Date" format
                     (e.g., "Tue May 26")
              \e     an ASCII escape character (033)
              \h     the hostname up to the first `.'
              \H     the hostname
              \n     newline
              \s     the name of the shell, the  basename  of  $0
                     (the portion following the final slash)
              \t     the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format
              \T     the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format
              \@     the current time in 12-hour am/pm format
              \u     the username of the current user
              \v     the version of bash (e.g., 2.00)
              \V     the  release  of  bash, version + patchlevel
                     (e.g., 2.00.0)
              \w     the current working directory
              \W     the basename of the current  working  direc-
                     tory
              \!     the history number of this command
              \#     the command number of this command
              \$     if  the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a
                     $
              \nnn   the character  corresponding  to  the  octal
              \\     a backslash
              \[     begin a sequence of non-printing characters,
                     which could be  used  to  embed  a  terminal

so your basic prompt (from dos) is:
export ps1"\w$"

--dave