Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Scott Couston - Registration Account [12-15-06 09:39]: ...

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When ever I accidentally hit the ` ( till ) - above left TAB - Character the prompt disappears and I don't know where I am in the directory structure. How do I regain the standard prompt equal to MS $p $g

don't know 'MS $p$g', but seem to recall that configured the dos prompt before Billie bought the code.

a <ctrl-c> or another tilde will return you to the prompt. The first tilde is the opening for a statement which will be contained by the closing tilde for execution at one time to be delivered to some other command.

I think there's some confusion. The character that Scott typed - ` - is a *backtick*. A *tilde* looks like this - ~ -. http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/characters/ A pair of backticks works as Patrick described. A tilde is short for your home directory. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri December 15 2006 2:11 pm, Patrick Shanahan scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:

* Dave Howorth [12-15-06 10:32]:

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I think there's some confusion. The character that Scott typed - ` - is a *backtick*. A *tilde* looks like this - ~ -.

You are 100% korreckt, my prblm for trying to thnk b4 nooon at my age

:^)

hahahahha I *do* keep telling people not to expect anything sensible from folks before noon , er, noon -ish ( noontime is a bit elastic round here.) Sometimes it (noon) doesn't come til after Wednesday . (Y) -- j -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org