* An ongoing debate between Paul Quinn and Ben Ritchey rages on ...   
      
    BR>> I'm using:   
      
    PQ> That's getting messy, quoting & re-quoting.  :)  It was a bit gaudy   
    PQ> In any case, thanks but no thanks.   
      
   lol yup, gawdy for me, too, but I use mc which doesn't show the colors on the   
   command line so I didn't bother changing it! Basically it's just :   
      
   export PS1="\t \u@\h \w \$ " ... nice & simple :)   
      
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