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- From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
- Subject: Re: csh command line editing
- Message-ID: <ellis.716558665@nova>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
- References: <5049@balrog.ctron.com> <1992Sep14.221123.17218@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:04:25 GMT
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- tparker@music.scd.ucar.edu (Tom Parker) writes:
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- >In article <5049@balrog.ctron.com> geremia@ctron.com writes:
- >>
- >> I have a Sun SPARCstation running sunos 4.1 unix. Does anyone
- >>know how to get command line editing to work. Also how about command
- >>line history browse using the arrow keys????
-
- >I use the 'mced' command to do this and am quite please with it.
- >You can Use ARCHIE to find anonymous ftp locations that have 'mced'.
- >--
- >+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- >| Tom Parker | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
- >| tparker@ncar.ucar.edu | (303) 497-1227 |
- >+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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- Get tcsh, bash, or zsh. All have many features beyond csh or sh. tcsh is
- the most limited superset, because the others try to be supersets of both
- csh and ksh. Chances are someone else at your site has already installed
- them on their workstations or on a server.
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