Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:23:40 +1000 From: "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" <numard@smartmedia.com.ar> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Doskey? Message-ID: <35AC3CDC.A67775AE@smartmedia.com.ar> References: <005b01bdafa3$02b3a6a0$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess>
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Andrew Specht wrote: > > Doskey does the same thing as the .bash_history file if i remember > correctly. > > It allows you to scan through your previous commands. yup.... but only the last 50 (compare it to the last 500 in my unix box, be it Linux or FreeBSD :))) One nice thing that WinNT has in its shell is when you press F7, a pop-up window shows up and you can scroll through the history and select w/<enter> what you want. But you can work your way around with ~/.bash_history -- Norberto Meijome (a) Numard, (a) Beto | ICQ # 15032073 * Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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