Info on BRL shell

[Carl M. Fongheiser]

In article <8137 at elsie.UUCP> ado at elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>One problem is that the decision can't be made in a vacuum.  The manual
>page for su(1) on our SunOS 4.0 system notes that
>	To remind the super-user of his responsibilities,
>	the shell substitutes `#' for '$' or '%' in its usual prompt.
>If shells are set up to behave differently, the su(1) documentation becomes
>incorrect.

For that matter, the 7th edition man page for su(1) has a similar statement.
How about the System V man pages?

				Carl Fongheiser
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