From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 15 10:35:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19607 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:35:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19601 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA20090; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:34:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:34:46 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199807151734.KAA20090@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: elmore@sohopros.com Subject: Re: Doskey? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: elmore@sohopros.com >Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:56:11 -0500 (CDT) >>Well, it would be nice if you could tell us what Doskey does. >Doskey gives you the ability to use the up arrow to access >the last command typed. Ah; in that case, you'd want to examine the features of the program that reads the command that was typed; in the case of UNIX, that's a "shell". There are many shells available, such as sh, ksh, bash, csh, tcsh. I'm certain that tcsh has this ability, since I use it. I believe I've seen bash used in this way. BTW, the "history depth" (how many commands to remember) is configurable, and (at least in the case of csh and tcsh), it's also possible to "pre-load" that history without actually executing the commands. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message