ksh looked good to me also, but I use the feature of bash that allows
multi line prompts.  That way I get:

->current/working/dir
machine[37]:  

as my prompt.  I couldn't see any way to get ksh to do a multi-line
prompt.  I put in "....\n..." or "....^j...."  (the real character)
but I always got a single line prompt.

Does any one know how to get multi-line prompts?

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