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- From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: showing the current directory in the status bar.
- Message-ID: <2979@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 21:23:18 GMT
- Organization: Unisys Unix Systems Group, San Jose, CA
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- From article <14NOV199209415284@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu>, by umarsa00@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (PROF. A.S. UMAR, (615)322-2459):
- > I had obtained from this news group some scripts for putting the hostname
- > and the current directory on the status line of an aixterm window. It works
- > very well except I would like the status line to change also when I telnet
- > or ftp to another host from this window. Does anyone know how to do this.
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- I have the same .kshrc on the other machine. I also have
- trap 'clearterm' 0
- in my .kshrc, where clearterm erases the name, so I don't get confused after
- I logout, back to my original system.
- You can also embed this titlebar display as part of your ksh prompt, so that
- it gets updated, along with a $PWD-style prompt.
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