[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Dan Cross]

In article <l037lbF2supU10 at mid.individual.net>,
bill  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 1/8/2024 4:14 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <unhkr1$1lj0v$1 at dont-email.me>, chrisq  <devzero at nospam.com> wrote:
>>> On 1/8/24 19:02, mjos_examine wrote:
>>>> On 2024-01-08 9:38 a.m., Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>>> On 2024-01-08 9:21 a.m., Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>>>>> Synchronised permanent storage of command history across sessions.
>>>>>> Supports
>>>>>> using multiple sessions at the same time and only writes the changes
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> that session to the history file.
>>>>>
>>>>> I usually just write a COM file if I want to preserve my commands.
>>>>>
>>>>> But other may like the history you propose.
>>>>
>>>> I have to agree that being able to up-arrow through commands done during
>>>> my last session, whether 5 minutes, or 5 days, or 5 months later, can be
>>>> very useful and convenient.
>>>>
>>>> Couple that with the sister-feature of being able to back-scroll through
>>>> all the terminal output from the last session, and now you are really
>>>> talking useful and convenient.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> One of the most irritating things about working on terminal
>>> based systems was the lack of command line recall. To be fair
>>> though, early unix systems with csh or sh lacked that as well.
>>> Solution here was to select tcsh, which did have command line recall
>>> capability, even back in the early 1990's
>> 
>> `csh` certainly had command history, though not "recall" in the
>> sense of using an arror key or ^P or something to bring a
>> previously executed back back to the prompt for editing.  Korn's
>> shell had similar functionality, and various people hacked it
>> into `sh` at different times.
>
>I use the arrow keys all the time in csh.  Been doing that
>since at least the SunOS days.  Don't remember if Ultrix
>even had csh.  Guess I should check.

Unlikely.  Tcsh, sure, but not /bin/csh.

Ultrix had csh.

	- Dan C.