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To: "Filby, Gordon" <Gordon.Filby@pef.fzk.de>,
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From: Jim Mock <jim@phrantic.phear.net>
Subject: Re: History key doesn't work
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At 12:53 PM 9/15/98 +0200, Filby, Gordon wrote:
>Hallo, 
>
>I'm new to Unix and even newer to FreeBSD. I'm missing greatly the feature
>I've seen 
>often in Linux - the list of recently used commands on the cursor arrow
>keys. When I hit 
>the up arrow I get stuff like [DEsktop etc. Any ideas ? I've installed the
>German 
>keyboard (I think I've tried both ) on other machine at home. 
>
>Thanks. 
>
>Gordon.Filby@pef.fzk.de 
>

What shell are you using?  I know that bash and tcsh will both do what
you're looking for.. they're in the ports collection.. /usr/ports/shells.

Hope this helps..

Jim
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