making vars in bash script accessible from shell

[Price, Erik]

> [please configure your email program to wrap lines at around 72
>  characters -- thanks...]

I can't seem to find the setting that lets you do that.
this is MS Outlook 2000. (I kinda hafta use it for work...)

> Is
> 
>    PROMPT_COMMAND='pwd | perl -ne "chomp; print substr(\$_, 0, 30);"'
> 
> what you want?

I'm sure that would work, but I was looking for an all-bash
solution (for pedagogical reasons).


Erik