From: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: Bash termcap and history file 11 Dec 1996 09:50:52 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Cc: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Using B17 on Win95 with the provided bash 1.14.6(1), I have a couple of problems: 1. Currently bash has TERM=dumb, so inserting into a command line using readline re-outputs the rest of the line, quite slowly. I have tried setting TERM=ansi and pointing TERMCAP to an older Gnu-Win32 termcap, and to the VIM termcap, but neither has any effect. Has anyone managed to work around this? If so, please post the relevant termcap entry or whatever. 2. I can't get the history file working properly. Specifically, 'history -r' does not work - it does not give an error message but does nothing to the history list, with or without a filename. I can do 'history -w' OK (and bash saves it automatically as well), but bash never reads this in again on startup, with 'bash -login' or just 'bash'. Also, 'history -a' does nothing. My variable settings look like: HISTCONTROL=ignoredups HISTFILE=/richardd/.bash_history HISTFILESIZE=500 HISTSIZE=500 command_oriented_history= Again, I am curious whether there is a workaround to this. Thanks Richard -- richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".