UNIX prompts (-ksh)

[Hans Jespersen]

In article <2391 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <11080 at well.UUCP> tneff at well.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
>>Actually not even the classic Korn shell solution of
>>
>>	export PS1='$PWD> '
>>
>>seems to work everywhere.  
 
>I don't know ksh, but all the other shells I've seen use single-quotes
>to protect against variable substitution...

Absolutely correct. I think Tom ment

	export PS1=`$PWD> `
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