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Old 12th February 2009
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Originally Posted by JMJ_coder View Post
In the default .cshrc that comes with NetBSD, there is a variable called 'mch', that is set: set mch = `hostname -s`

I have no idea what that is or for.
The manpage for hostname(1) states that -s strips off the domain name lefting (presumptively) the machine name -- which I suspect what 'mch' is meant to represent.
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...so is 'mch' a made-up variable name that is only meant to help set the default prompt?
Most likely so.
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