[ale] Setting a $PS1?

[Robert L. Harris]

Ok,
  I'm running ksh and my PS1="{$?}:`hostname -s`:\$PWD>"  which I'm
pretty happy with.  The problem is that sometimes the $PWD portion
gets a bit long.  I tried changing it from:

export PS1="{$?}:`hostname -s`:\$PWD>"  
to 
export PS1="{$?}:`hostname -s`: `basename \$PWD`>"  

which looked good, except when I change directories, it didn't update
the prompt any more.  Anyone know what I'm missing?

Robert

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FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'