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From: navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra)
Subject: Re: keyboard history editing
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.165338.5955@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Northwestern University
References: <9104011503.AA01057@?lri.uwo.ca> <9188@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <575@bria>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 16:53:38 GMT
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In article <575@bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
>In an article, asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Varney) writes:
>|In an article, steckner@lri.uwo.ca (Michael Steckner) writes:
>||Is there some sort of shell that has been developed that will allow
>||me to use a cursor pad to scroll through my previous commands [...]
>|
>|Try bash
>|It is available via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edi in the file
>|/pub/gnu/bash-1.05.tar 
>|I believe there may also be a patch file there.
>
>Bash is fine if you don't mind a 300K shell that will occasionally dump
>core just to make life interesting.  IMHO, there just ain't enough
>bang for the buck.
 
       Ah But what about the 500K stripped bash-1.07 shell that really 
 loves to dump core!?
>
>-- 
>Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc, Los Angeles | Opinions stated are never realistic
>Title of the week: Systems Engineer    | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>If MS-DOS didn't exist, who would UNIX programmers have to make fun of?


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