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From: mkhaw@vaxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: dsb unix vs. dec's vms
Message-ID: <12911@vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 22:09:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: vaxc.12911
Posted: Tue May 19 22:09:54 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 21-May-87 02:10:57 EDT
References: <5828@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <34ab0e42.8be4@apollo.uucp> <667@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1135@byzantium.swatsun.UUCP>
Reply-To: mkhaw@vaxc.UUCP (Michael Khaw)
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In article <1135@byzantium.swatsun.UUCP> schwartz@swatsun (Scott Schwartz) writes:
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>But: I do know that if you hit the <up arrow> key the shell gives you
>the previous command line.  Repeat n-times and you get the nth previous
>command line.  If it can do this, I can't believe it couldn't support

This may have changed with more recent releases, but in VMS 4.2, there was
a limit of 20 remembered commands.  I don't see any relationship between
DCL storing prior commands and whether or not it accepts multiple commands
on one line.

Mike Khaw
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