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Date:      Tue, 9 May 2000 10:42:58 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Archimedes <pstanfield@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I may be new....but.
Message-ID:  <20000509104258.A49703@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <000801bfb992$eba7f500$0cf71018@c272234a>; from pstanfield@home.com on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:45:25AM -0700
References:  <000801bfb992$eba7f500$0cf71018@c272234a>

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On Tue 2000-05-09 (01:45), Archimedes wrote:
> Ok, this is really stumping me.
> 
> In linux, by default, I think you get the basic shell or "bash", this
> shell allows you to simply hit the up arrow to go through a bunch of
> your previous command line commands.  

In sh, "set -o emacs".

> So I install FreeBSD, and lo and behold, I can find no such feature in
> the basic (bourne?) shell.  Is there one?  How about for other shells
> like csh and ssh?

Type "csh".

Or, install bash, tcsh, or similar from sysinstall when you install, or
use ports to add them later.  Or, "pkg_add -r bash" or "pkg_add -r tcsh"
for the above-mentioned.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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