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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: searching doskey's style command
Date: 24 Sep 1995 04:21:27 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: chris@www.cybernet.fr's message of 23 Sep 1995 16:00:29 GMT

In article <441aut$4qg@s3.iway.fr> chris@www.cybernet.fr (Christopher Rousseau) writes:

   I'm new on unix and i've installed freebsd.
   I'm asking myself if there is a command like doskey for editing
   old command lines (not history!) or a program which could do it.

Probably the most popular shell for all-around user-oriented features
(as opposed to script-oriented features) is tcsh.  Doskey sucks rocks
through a straw compared to tcsh.

Bash and ksh (pdksh actually) are others that are popular and work
well, but require more work to get all the cool user-interface
features to work automatically.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
       --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
     NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
                           DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
     NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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