"Day Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > A bit of history. First I was told how much better MC > was than dos. As if dos file managers did not exist?
No, you started out saying there was no equivalent to tools like Norton Commander for Linux. > Then when I cited examples of functionality seen in DC, > DF, DW but not seen in MC I was told Linux had many > other wonderful CLI file managers. Are those functionalities available in Norton Commander for DOS? If not, why would Midnight Commander, a "Norton Commander" for Linux, include them? Do DC, DF or DW provide the ability to manipulate RPMs or write directly to CD-RW? Does that make DOS weaker or better? (Hint: They're not the same programs, they're DIFFERENT programs.) > Although, if so, I dont understand why the distros dont tell the users to > use them. Because it's your choice to do so or not? > As for 'history', DRDOS has this option in config.sys > c:\history on 256 > 128, or 512, or whatever for the size of the buffer for > previous commands. Up arrow is LIFO, down arrow is FIFO. > > Maybe that is in the Linux CLI too, I dunno. Yes, the bash shell has a rich history mechanism. You mentioned you've used RedHat. Hidden on page 172 of "The Official Red Hat Linux 7.2 Getting Started Guide" is Section 13.12.2 entitled "Using More Command History" which describes it IN DETAIL. This document has been provided since AT LEAST version 5.1. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
