[lug] Can't display history in csh

Dhruva Reddy sledgehammer2010 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 27 18:57:08 MDT 2001


Never mind.  The problem was that environment
variables in lowercase are an alien concept to me.

The documentation list the variable as 'history'
rather than 'HISTORY' and I didn't believe it.

Dhruva

--- Dhruva Reddy <sledgehammer2010 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having trouble with csh (my friend is taking an
> Intro to UN*X class and his instructor insists).
> 
> I run Debian (the unstable version), and when I type
> 'history', it does not display anything--it just
> returns to the prompt (i.e., no command history, no
> error message--nothing).
> 
> Everything else concerning the command history seems
> to work.  I can dereference past commands using '!'
> and '!!'.
> 
> Anyone know of any config parameters I can look at?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dhruva
> 
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