SPUG: aliases, -> Korn Shell vs. PD-ksh

[William Julien]

>
>I recommend downloading the binary-only version, because the
>source-code distribution has the weirdest installation procedure
>ever devised by man, and anybody having experience with conventional
>installation techniques will undoubtedly foul it up.
>
>Click on "ksh - standalone AT&T ksh executable" at
>http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/

I'm a big korn shell fan. I found that the installation can be very
simple by just putting ksh into /bin and edit the /etc/shells. All
the other stuff isn't necessary. 

By the way, my .kshrc it contains:

PS1="-->"

#
# terminal and title bar status (interactive only)
#
case $- in
*i*)
        if [ `whence _cd | wc -l`  -eq 0 ]; then
                function _cd
                {
                    cd "$@"
                    /bin/echo -n "^[]2;$HOST:$PWD^G^[]1;$HOST^G"
                }
                alias cd=_cd
                cd `pwd`
        fi
        export TERM=xterm
esac

The ^[ is an escape character and ^G is CTRL-G. This puts the path in the
xterm title bar and keeps my prompt a nice constant "-->". 

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