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From: Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@minas-tirith.lms.ru>
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 <199707212152.XAA00120@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>Wolfgang Helbig write
s:
>> 2.) In the shells, there is no history function with cursor up/ down keys li
>ke
>>   DOSKEY, NT or OS/2's key variable for cmd.exe, or even with Linux shells.
>>   Like NextStep's csh, the FreeBSD shells lack cursor history key support.
>
>You can use good old /bin/sh and get your history editing by "set -E".
Both bash and tcsh provides commandline editing.

Alex.