From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 20:29:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA02819 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 20:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mistery.mcafee.com (jimd@mistery.mcafee.com [192.187.128.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA02814 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 20:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jimd@localhost) by mistery.mcafee.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA16548; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:32:16 -0700 From: Jim Dennis Message-Id: <201006140332.UAA16548@mistery.mcafee.com> Subject: Re: doskey ... To: hmmm@alaska.net (hmmm) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 110 20:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <31BFA4D3.172B@alaska.net> from "hmmm" at Jun 12, 96 10:19:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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