Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How to mimic the terminal driver? Message-ID: <9019@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 30 Nov 88 19:18:12 GMT References: <10566@wsgw.ws.sony.junet> <35@umvlsi.ECS.UMASS.EDU> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 10 In article <35@umvlsi.ECS.UMASS.EDU> vishwana@umvlsi.ECS.UMASS.EDU (Chidambaram Vishwanath) writes: > I have taken upon myself the following task, viz.,: I want to add >an extra feature to the C-shell whereby I can recall earlier commands >by pressing an arrow-key. [etc.] Why reinvent the wheel? The so-called "Tenex Cshell" already has similar support built in. I think it may even have become the standard 4.3BSD Cshell. You can also get this in the Korn shell and the BRL Bourne shell. A terminal editing wrapper process was posted to one of the newsgroups only a few months ago, if you want to use the separate-process approach.