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Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD?  :-)
In-Reply-To: <199706181850.UAA21225@online.no> from Geir Eivind Mork at "Jun 18, 97 08:49:02 pm"
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Geir Eivind Mork writes, in lines of 110 characters:
> X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2

(Excuse me if I rearrange your text to fit in 80 character wide
windows)

> But I was using 4os/2 as my primary shell in Os/2, how can I emulate
> it's features (except alias) in BSD (I use the standar shell in
> BSD).. Like the TAB feature, the doskey-alike feature (browse
> previous commands) etc.

I don't know what the TAB feature does, but if it's used for filename
completion, bash does that.  You can also browse (and search) the
command history.

> And btw; Can I use some sort of macro in the prompt ? Like I did in
> dos/4os? Like the famous $p$g? I haven't figured out something like
> that from the man(uals)

Yes, bash will do this as well.

Greg