ftp vs http vs scp - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 May 2004

On May 28, 13:34, Roger Merchberger wrote:
...
  Rumor has it that Jules Richardson may have mentioned
these words:
 >On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 16:48, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
 > > Personally, I rather be
 > > able to press <UP> than retype a 40+ character command line that I
...
   > mis-typed
a single letter on. 
 >Doesn't that particular form of simple command line editing (eg. ^a^b)
...
  work in the
original sh? :-) 
 Yes, but <UP><DOWN> and tab file/command completion don't. 
No, none of those exist in the original 'sh' (Bourne Shell), not even
in fairly recent varieties, such as in late-90s IRIX.  However, command
line editing (using a large subset of vi commands) and command history
exist in the Korn Shell (ksh).  You might have been confused by that,
since many recent UNIXes provide an "sh" as a symlink to "ksh", just
as
linux provides "sh" as just a symlink to "bash".
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Pete                                            Peter Turnbull
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                                                University of York