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Old 06-09-2005
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The korn shell does *not* support arrow keys for scrolling through commands.

The easiest way is to use vi mode (set -o vi) and then use Esc to get into command mode then k and j to cycle through commands.

The tcsh allows arrow key scrolling, as does bash.

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