> Does anybody know if there is a BASH shell for netbsd, or
> a shell that uses the cursor keys for the command history?

There is source at ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/bash-2.02.tar.gz
or any other gnu archive.

I did as told in the INSTALL file which is something like
	./configure
	make

	./configure --help prints a list of options. The defaults use to be fine.
Harald.