It's the KORN shell on a POSIX system.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Osborne [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:07 PM
> To:   Shahan, Ray; [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: OT: POSIX
>
> Hmmm....if you were using the bash shell on a system that supports your
> arrow
> keys (like Linux), you can just use the up arrow to flip therough your
> previous commands and edit them with the left & right arrows.
>
> -Pete
> On November 21, 2001 12:54 pm, Shahan, Ray wrote:
> > AAAAHHHHH!
> >
> > I found some reading in *man fc* because I wanted a better way to do
> edits
> > on the command history in POSIX (you know, being used to that
> proprietary
> > OS named MPE)...I ended up at *man ed*, and I just can't say enough
> about
> > how impressed I am. Yes folks, ed is really something.
> >
> > I never thought I'd see the day that a line editor was so ^%$#@ bad,
> that
> > it's easier to just retype the command line you wanted to edit (no
> matter
> > how long or complicated the command line was, and no matter how many
> times
> > it takes you to get it right) than to use the line editor.
> >
> > Still positive, and smiling real nicely.
> >
> > Ray S.
> >
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