I tried using this, and on my mac itself this works fine, but I was hoping it would update when I telnet to another machine and it doesn't. Is there any way to get that to work? Specifically, that is the only thing I'd want the title to show, the host you are currently on.

Steve

I assume that most of this can be done in the .profile of your account on the box your a telnetting into. current my prompt is set locally by this:

MACHINE=`uname -n`; export MACHINE
ME=`whoami`
PS1='$ME@$MACHINE:$PWD>'

and that updates with whatever directory. Eventually I will get around to just chopping off the last directory with regular expressions (at least I think thats how its done) but I havent had time. I'm not completely sure, but I bet the title of the window could be done that way too, maybe. Or you could use an alias to do it whenever you telnet, something like this:

alias telnet 'settitle "telnet !*"; telnet !*; settitle $t:t/$cwd:t'

you could make it change the title with any app that you run in that manner. I hope that helps, most of this I havent tried, but it seems like it would work.

good luck

robb