From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 17:34:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26431 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 17:34:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26359 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 17:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu (root@saul3.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.1]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id RAA21184; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 17:34:28 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id RAA00677; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 17:34:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:33:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Dima Dorfman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: History In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980410171412.009006c0@207.213.224.25> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Hi: > > I'm having problems using the history. I know it's supposed to be stored > in .history (using sh), and used by pushing the up & down keys. Well, it > doesn't work! First, it isn't getting stored, and second, when I push up, > it prints '^[[A' on the console. > > Thanks for any help in advance! > Dima You must be using a shell which supports the history mechanism. 'bash' is one such shell. 'tcsh' is another. Have fun, | Stop warning me about the latest virus. Learn more... Jason Wells | http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message