I set a prompt string in the root .cshrc file of a system and
wanted it to ring the terminal bell on each new shell prompt.
Instead, I get the representation of the \a expression as a control
character as in ^g appearing on the screen instead of the VT100
emulation receiving the ASCII 7 character to beep the terminal. If I
type a Control-G, I do hear a bell, but if I include it in the prompt
string, it always gets translated in to ^g. What do I need to look at
to change this behavior?
The prompt string in question is:
set prompt="\a\!# "
I did try
set prompt="`echo `\!# "
with exactly the same results.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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