From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Mon Sep 12 21:00:49 1994
Subject: Problem with PS1 example in octave v1.0 man page.
From: "Matthew A. Purdy" <purdym at weiss dot che dot utexas dot edu>
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 21:00:46 -0500 (CDT)


The example in the man page for changing the default prompt in 
octave v1.0 does not work.  I tried it on weiss.che.utexas.edu
and kept getting the following errors:

  warning:  unrecognized escape sequence `\u' -- converting to `u'
  warning:  unrecognized escape sequence `\!' -- converting to `!'

This came about from issuing the command:

	PS1 = '\u:\!> ' 

at the octave prompt (taken directly from the man pages).
I also tried the \s and \W options with similar results.


		-Matthew Purdy
		<purdym at weiss dot che dot utexas dot edu>
		<matthew at npc dot ece dot utexas dot edu>