Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!xadmx!dpaulso@relay.nswc.navy.mil From: dpaulso@relay.nswc.navy.mil Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: history/savehist variables in csh Message-ID: <18466@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 27 Feb 89 16:47:26 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 24 A while back, I wrote: >>The last line is not needed. csh does this `source' for you automatically. Sam Blanchard responded: > source -h ~/.history > adds .history to the current history. I.e. (maybe you knew this Dave) > the 32 command history that Enrico has after his .login finishes is > the contents of his .history file followed by the contents of his > .history file. ;-) that's right. in my inimitable clusmy fashion, i was alluding to the fact that the mere existence of a .history file is sufficient to cause the saved history to be placed in the current session's history list. thus, 'the last line is not needed' >B. Sam Blanchard UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!sam dave --- Dave Paulson dpaulso@relay.nswc.navy.mil (703)663-2137 "I've upped my standards; now up yours" -- Pat Paulsen