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a few days ago derek martin gave the following as a prompt:

PS1="\[\033]2;${chroot}\u@\h \W\007\][${chroot}\u@\h \w]\n\\$ "

good stuff -- i always wanted to be able to put the current
host into the title bar.  where can i read more about the
protocol involved using brackets, octal numbers, etc.

also, is there any way to get rid of the tilde at the
beginning of \w?

tia,
dan

j. daniel moylan
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[death to html bloat!]

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