RE: Unix question: how to display SID and path in prompt

• Scott.Shafer_at_dcpds.cpms.osd.mil

> Obviously. If you had worked on VMS, why would you want to emulate it?

Actually the platform had a number of virtues -- file versions not the least, along with separate system access. DCL itself had some nice features, if they'd only added pipes it would've been equivalent to most *NIX shells w/ the added benefit of lexical var's.

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