From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 14 22:23:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19297 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:23:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smartnet.com.ar ([205.147.248.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19292 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:23:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from numard@smartmedia.com.ar) Received: from smartmedia.com.ar (syd1 [203.111.0.219]) by smartnet.com.ar (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA19984 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 21:26:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from numard@smartmedia.com.ar) Message-ID: <35AC3CDC.A67775AE@smartmedia.com.ar> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:23:40 +1000 From: "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" Organization: 0xCode X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Doskey? References: <005b01bdafa3$02b3a6a0$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ 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