Solaris

VT100

A VT100 doesn't support colors but anyway, this should work:

Code:

 PS1=$(printf "\033[46;31m%s@\033[1;33m%s:\033[1;34m$PWD \033[0m \$ " $(logname) $(hostname))

Your second syntax isn't compatible with ksh88 and the first one doesn't do colors.

Does Tectia 6.1 support VT100? Could be wrong, but as far as I can see from their online documentation, it assumes an ANSI terminal.

The type of terminal announced is user selectable (Terminal Answerback) and it seems vt100 is the default. In any case, the Tectia client supports ANSI colors so my suggestion should work.

Good Morning, thank you that does work and the colors are now visible as what I saw when I tried it was red user name, yellow server name, blue working directory with a teal like background highlight and my output was white which is awesome. There is only one problem. If I change directories, the prompt does not reflect the then current working directory, its like its stuck and so I cant tell what directory I am in once I get deep into it...

A backslash was missing, here is the command fixed:

Code:

PS1=$(printf "\033[46;31m%s@\033[1;33m%s:\033[1;34m\$PWD \033[0m \$ " $(logname) $(hostname))

that works exactly! so much easier now. if you got time for one last question....can you add the time to the prompt? not date and time but just the time say after the PWD?