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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com (Ted Mittelstaedt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Arrow keys
Date: 6 Mar 1997 03:16:35 GMT
Organization: Cool Dudes Inc.
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In article <331E1611.361E@bluep.com>, Sam Hadzajlic <samh@bluep.com> says:
>
>Luca Bertoncello wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On my computer I have installed FreeBSD. Now I want to know if I can
>> install a program like DOSKEY of DOS, so I can scroll history with arrow
>> keys.
>> 
>> Someone can help me?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Luca Bertoncello
>> (lucabert@biella.alpcom.it)
>just use tcsh !

The bash shell also does this.  You will need to do two things to enable
it though, first you will need to make sure that the TERM environmental
variable is defined to a terminal emulation, such as vt100, and second
you may need to add the alternative shell program into /etc/shells