Dan Drake writes: > You're correct that "cat" is unnecessary, but it looks nice to write I agree that it looks nicer, but it is less efficient, which can sometimes be significant. > I don't quite see what this does. It will run the given echo command > before each prompt...won't this just print a prompt twice? It sets the window title of your xterm (PuTTY, in your case) to be the current hostname. This is useful when you SSH into a different box, especially when you have multiple terminals open. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list