RE: [MiNT] pppd

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Guido Flohr
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 11:56 AM
> To: MiNT mailing list
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] pppd
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 10:52:14AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com> writes:
> >
> > |> > > Perhaps because bash never implemented proper prompting options?
> > |> >
> > |> > Hu? What do you mean? Are $PS1 for simple prompts and
> $PROMPT_COMMAND
> > |> > for more complex ones not enough? Or are you actually
> meaning something
> > |> > different?
> > |>
> > |> Neither strings change what options are available.  For instance,
> > |> bash doesn't have any escape code to explicitely make the prompt
> > |> show in BOLD, but tcsh does.
> >
> > Of course, it has: PS1="\[$(tput bold)\]foobar\[$(tput sgr0)\]"
>
> That requires tput which belongs to ncurses and is not part of KGMD,
> doesn't it?  Anyway, ncurses should be pretty-standard even on MiNT today.

How often will this be evaluated? Every time the prompt appears?