batch(1) setting $prompt

[no capitals here]

while experimenting with batch(1), a new at-oriented command in OS 4.0, i
noted it failed (sent me nasty mail) while trying to do stty(1) calls in
my .cshrc . i thought that was silly, since these calls occur after a line

	if !(?prompt) exit

which tells the shell stop reading the file if the shell is
non-interactive.  sure enough, when i submitted another job to batch
asking it to tell me what $prompt was (after moving my .cshrc to something
else so the job would at least finish!), it said it was "calvin% ", the
default.

now i contend that batch(1) jobs are *not* interactive, and shouldn't set
$prompt before reading my .cshrc . sounds like a bug in batch to me, and i
was wondering what everyone else thought before i submit it to sun.

please send me mail at one of the addresses below, and i'll let y'all know
how it comes out.

...ben

ben ullrich
sybase, inc.
emeryville, ca
ben%sybase.com at sun.com		{pyramid,pacbell,sun,lll-tis,capmkt}!sybase!ben