On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Chris <atst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Nick Guenther <kou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Chris <atst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am trying to get the shell history with page-up but looks like it's
>>> not working. I'm running -current with the default ksh and added
>>> HISTSIZE=50 and export HISTSIZE to ~/.profile.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to get it?
>>
>> I've never seen it not work. Does it work for you on -RELEASE? Does it
>> work if you don't set HISTSIZE at all?
>
> No, it doesn't work either way. Maybe I should mention that it's only
> a test machine so I didn't create a swap partition (it has only one 6
> GB / partition) - could this be the reason why?
>
> Thanks.


I doubt it but I don't know the code off by heart. A more likely
reason is your terminal settings, what's $TERM?

-Nick

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