art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson) (08/19/90)
In article <24882@boulder.Colorado.EDU> anthony@lyra.Colorado.EDU (Anthony Veale) writes: >Hello, world, > >I have a programming task that I set myself and I need a bit of advice on how >to integrate this thing into my environment. Here's a brief on what I want to >do. > >I want to add on to UNIX the only good thing that I have found under VMS. >(My work forces my choice of operating system.) Namely, the VMS equivalent of >the history mechanism. For those who aren't familiar with it, you type Up- >arrows and Down-arrows to scroll through the history list and you can insert >and delete characters anywhere on the command line. Gee, sounds like ksh, or tcsh, or bash ... There *really* are shells available which do command line editing. Why not just get one of them ??? -- Arthur W. Neilson III | ARPA: art@pilikia.pegasus.com Bank of Hawaii Tech Support | UUCP: uunet!ucsd!nosc!pegasus!pilikia!art