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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Up arrow command recall
Date: 5 Feb 1996 11:49:09 GMT
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ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes:

> : > Does anybody know of a way to get the up arrow key to work as a command
> : > recall method in FreeBSD 2.10? I know this is something that comes
> : 
> : You probably actually want to use a different shell.  Try using the bash
> : package/port.
> 
> or tcsh.

Or /bin/sh. :-)

``set -o emacs'' is required for the standard shell, however.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)