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[Bruce Varney]

In article <575 at bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
}In an article, asg at sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Varney) writes:
}|In an article, steckner at lri.uwo.ca (Michael Steckner) writes:
}||Is there some sort of shell that has been developed that will allow
}||me to use a cursor pad to scroll through my previous commands [...]
}|
}|Try bash
}|It is available via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edi in the file
}|/pub/gnu/bash-1.05.tar 
}|I believe there may also be a patch file there.
}
}Bash is fine if you don't mind a 300K shell that will occasionally dump
}core just to make life interesting.  IMHO, there just ain't enough
}bang for the buck.
}
The size depends on your machine. It is only 200K here. And the occasional
core dump problem has been fixed with bash1.07 as far as I can tell - as
long as you compile it right!
  Seriously, bash is SOOO much powerful than ksh. Can you use your arrows
in ksh? In bash you can use whatever key sequence you want, and bind it
to just about anything. I even have mine set up so that !!<space> expands
just like tcsh (as does !t<space> etc). In fact, there is not one thing 
I know of that any shell can do that bash cannot - but ther is 
PLENTY that bash can do that others do not. And with some of the new stuff
it is even better!
		Bruce

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