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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.
Ciao
Guido
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