On 9/22/97 at 2:07 PM -0400, you wrote:

> TO get the arrow key thing working, I had to switch to tcsh. AFAIK csh
> doesn't support it. I don't know much about sh and ksh, but I assume the
> case is the same for them.

As it turned out, ksh allows me to do arrow-key command line history *and*
dynamic shell prompts. Consequently, I've switched over to ksh, and life is
happier.

FYI: Dabe Murphy wrote and told me that ksh has to be in emacs mode to do
arrow key history stuff. EDITOR=emacs; export EDITOR did the trick.

Thanks!

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