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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