Date: Sun, 13 Jun 110 20:32:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dennis <jimd@mcafee.com> To: hmmm@alaska.net (hmmm) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doskey ... Message-ID: <201006140332.UAA16548@mistery.mcafee.com> In-Reply-To: <31BFA4D3.172B@alaska.net> from "hmmm" at Jun 12, 96 10:19:15 pm
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> just wondering what you call (& where) BSD's "doskey" utility ...
If you are referring to something that would give you
the ability to recall commands from a history/buffer using
cursor keys, and re-edit them, and reissue them and something
that allows you to define "macros" (command aliases) -- there isn't
a separate utility to do that under FreeBSD (or any version of
Unix). These are built-in features of most *ix shells.
I'd suggest bash (as having these features bound to keys that
are closest to what a DOSKEY user would expect).
If you continue to work in DOS on this or other machines --
I *highly* recommend that you try 4DOS.
If you are used to using Norton Commander in DOS then you'll
want to get a copy of Midnight Commander for *ix. If you preferred
XTree there is an analogous package for *ix ('utree'?) -- but
I haven't used either enough to recommend either of them
(they did look like similar interfaces -- I just never liked
either of them; whereas I used to be *the* Norton Commander
support specialist for Symantec).
Jim Dennis,
System Administrator,
McAfee Associates
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