Re: UNIX equivalent to DOSEDIT ??

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From: Daniel Smith
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 1990 02:01

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>In article <1990Sep11.230946.23611@midway.uchicago.edu>, phd_jacquier@gsbacd.uchicago writes:

>> I am a beginner at UNIX and have the following question.
>> Why is there not a simple way to recall, edit and reissue old commands
>> like in DOS with dosedit or scrollrecall, or in VMS ?

	tcsh, get it from osu-cis.edu.  They have at least Sun 3 and 4
binaries available via ftp (someone please jump in and correct me/add to this).

	Does BASH (GNU) offer command line editing?  I'm seem to think
that it does.

				Daniel
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