Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: CLI Message-ID: <373@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 09:46:06 EST Article-I.D.: graffiti.373 Posted: Thu Oct 31 09:46:06 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 14:25:40 EST References: <279@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 22 > One misfeature of csh (under 4.1 BSD and, I presume, 4.2) is that it > insisted on adding the command line to the history file before > executing the command.... > > A locally developed shell fixes this by keeping only the last few > command lines, and keeping them in memory. The number of lines kept > can be set by changing the shell variable HISTORY... That's how csh works, too. You can stop saving history to disk by saying set savehist=0 and you can change your history by saying set history=xxx I generally set savehist to half of history. -- Name: Peter da Silva Graphic: `-_-' UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter