[ILUG] file management

[Chris Higgins]

> On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:40:13AM +0000, kevin lyda mentioned:
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:25:34AM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > > as for long PATHs: come on kev, how often do you look at your PATH
> > > variable? do you echo it every 5 minutes to satisfyingly see how short
> > > it is? no you dont... it's $PATH, and 99% of the time you never look
> > don't be silly.  it's part of my prompt.
> 
>  You deserve it then.

TCSH: 
set prompt='%B%m:%c3%b%# '

Works perfectly - get to see the last three components, and the hostname
gobbles up the rest :-)
Completely tunable to show lots of other bits, but the path bit is the
handiest....
> 
> Kate
> 
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