[Info-vax] DCL, was: Re: Microkernel

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-08-12, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> wrote:
>
> Another way might be to save the (just reloaded) recall buffer as a
> separate file on entry to a session, then you just have to compare
> that at any time later with the current recall buffer to know what's
> been added or changed. Something like this must have been done years
> ago though. Perhaps something on old decus tapes ?.
>

I've never seen anything like this available for DCL. The first time I
heard of permanent command history recall was on Unix based systems.

I've just had a look online to see if I could find anything and I could
not, although I do see that Hoff has a comparison between DCL and bash
on his website, and I also see I've been asking for this capability for
a number of years. :-)

> Usually have 2 or 3 terminal sessions running bash here, and they all have
> unique history files. Not sure how that works though...
>

Interesting. For me, everything ends up in ~/.bash_history.

(I've just double checked to be sure. :-) This is on a RHEL 5.x clone.)

Simon.

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