discuss: how to describe a command prompt?
Subject:
RE: how to describe a command prompt?
From:
"Rodolfo J. Paiz" ####@####.####
Date:
22 Nov 2003 18:23:02 -0000
Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.0.20031122122151.02498110@mail.simpaticus.com>
At 02:57 11/22/2003, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
>Martin A. Brown wrote:
> >
> > <programlisting>
> > <prompt># </prompt><userinput>cd /some/dir</userinput>
> > <prompt># </prompt><userinput>ls -l</userinput>
> > </programlisting>
>
>And I would do this exactly the same way, except that the tag
><programlisting> would rather be a <screen>. Also, the "prompt"
>would be an entity like <prompt>[user@machine ~/dir]$</prompt>
>for frequent usage :-)
I like the thought of making a frequently-used prompt an entity. But what
(really) is the difference between programlisting and screen? They seem to
do the same thing, no?
--
Rodolfo J. Paiz
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