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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
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 09:46:06 1985
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> 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
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