Date: Wed, 12 Apr 95 16:26:44 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: yzalkow@birch.ee.vt.edu (Yuval Zalkow) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel compiling; bugs; help Message-ID: <9504122226.AA19420@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9504121943.AA20935@fox.ee.vt.edu> from "Yuval Zalkow" at Apr 12, 95 03:43:07 pm
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> Oh, one more thing, is there anyway to make the console of FreeBSD any > better than the "SCO" thing it is? Linux was tab for filename completion, and > up arrow for command histories. It also has color built in. Who do I > configure FreeBSD to get some of these things back into the console? This is a function of the shell, not of the console software. The console software only displays what it is told to display and allows you to control certain things like attributes on characters and region erases and scrolling using escape sequences. Run zsh or tcsh or bash as your shell, and make sure it is started correcty (has the right things in the init file). Note that you should not change the root shell from the sbin shell, since it is statically linked on purpose so root can log in and fix problems with the shared library system if they occur. The other shells are dynamically linked to save space on disk and in core. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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