[Info-vax] RECALL command

Chris Townley news at cct-net.co.uk
Fri Jun 23 09:26:18 EDT 2023


On 23/06/2023 14:14, bill wrote:
> On 6/23/2023 9:09 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 23/06/2023 13:09, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2023-06-22, hb at end.of.inter.net <h4711b at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> You can define a logout symbol:
>>>> "logout:==pipe recall/out=session.history ; eoj"
>>>> or a different symbol :
>>>> "bye:==pipe recall/out=session.history ; logout/full".
>>>
>>> The problem with these workarounds is what happens if you have more
>>> than one session going at the same time and you need to preserve the
>>> commands entered during all sessions ?
>>>
>>> Simon.
>>>
>>
>> VMS has a useful feature that allows for multiple file versions ;)
>>
> 
> And how do you tell which version is from which session?
> 
> bill
> 
Possibly with a bit of guesswork, or by looking at the contents. 
Personally I want to be able to search for a command I previously used, 
as I have done for years with *nix, so actually it doesn't really matter 
which it was.

I am just checking out a way of naming  the file for the login date 
time, and the file creation date would give the logout time

-- 
Chris




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