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From: chris@vindaloo.com (Christopher Sean Hilton)
Subject: Re: searching doskey's style command
Organization: Vindaloo communications
Message-ID: <1995Sep24.022333.17126@vindaloo.com>
References: <441aut$4qg@s3.iway.fr>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 95 02:23:33 GMT
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In article <441aut$4qg@s3.iway.fr>,
Christopher Rousseau <chris@www.cybernet.fr> wrote:
>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.
>
>thanks for helping me !!
>
>- guillaume PITHIOUD.
>- PARIS,FRANCE.
>

The bourne shell has command line history

     sh
     $ set -o emacs

^P == previous line ^N == next line ^B == previous character ^F ==
next character.

Chris
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