Re: showing 'talk' status in PROMPT

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>]

Timothy J Luoma wrote:

> I am using this to let me know if I have turned off messages on my terminal:
> 
> mesg () {
> 
>         case $1 in
>                 n*|off)
>                         TALK="<notalk> "
>                         /usr/bin/mesg n
>                 ;;
> 
>                 *)
>                         /usr/bin/mesg $*
>                         TALK=""

I haven't tried this out, but you have problems if you just run mesg
with no arguments and it was already turned off.  You should test
for '') and if so just run /usr/bin/mesg without setting $TALK.

> 
>                 ;;
>         esac
> }

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