Hello all

I'm on SunOS5.9 and I'm trying to make the arrow keys work as in DOS ..get the previous command , etc .. I searched this site and got an answer. I pasted the following code to my .kshrc file in my home directory...It still does not seem to work ...Am I missing anything here ?

I'm using Ksh ....

added the following lines to the bottom of your .kshrc file in my $HOME directory:

set -o emacs
alias __A=$(print '\0020') # ^P = up = previous command
alias __B=$(print '\0016') # ^N = down = next command
alias __C=$(print '\0006') # ^F = right = forward a character
alias __D=$(print '\0002') # ^B = left = back a character
alias __H=$(print '\0001') # ^A = home = beginning of line


Thanks

The arrow keys will work like DOS in bash.

In ksh you can put "set -o vi" in your profile or run it for that session, and you can ESCAPE-K back thru your commands.

I am not sure how to do what you want.

.kshrc is not used in Solaris by default, you will need to put the aliases in .profile, or set your ENV variable appropriately.

Thanks to both of you for your inputs ...

Reborg

I implemented your solution ..worked like a charm..One question though..one of my accounts has a default shell of /bin/sh (Bourne Shell).I
pasted the aliases in both .profile as well as .kshrc but it does NOT seem to work...Please advise ...

OS : SunOS5.9
Shell : /bin/sh

Thanks

For that account you are out of luck, Bourne shell does not support this behaviour at all.

Thanks reborg ...In that case, I'll request my administrator to change my shell to ksh ...