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From: wescott@micky.columbia.ncr.com (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re:  Retaining history with cshell
Message-ID: <1898@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 15 Jan 90 19:22:25 GMT
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Reply-To: wescott@micky.columbia.ncr.com (Mike Wescott)
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> I've been trying to remember the little trick an NCR instructor
> showed me during a "UNIX Operating System course" where your "history"
> is retained using .history and .logout and .login (I think) whenever
> you log back in to restore the history used in your last session.

This is not available on later ports of the csh to the Tower.  There
is a savehist environment variable that can be set to the numerical
value of the number of history entries to be saved in ~/.history.

This feature was quite brain-damaged in (our) earlier csh's.  It is
not even included now.
--
	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM