On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Nick Guenther <kou...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Chris <atst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Nick Guenther <kou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Chris <atst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I am trying to get the shell history with page-up but looks like it's >>>> not working. I'm running -current with the default ksh and added >>>> HISTSIZE=50 and export HISTSIZE to ~/.profile. >>>> >>>> Does anyone know how to get it? >>> >>> I've never seen it not work. Does it work for you on -RELEASE? Does it >>> work if you don't set HISTSIZE at all? >> >> No, it doesn't work either way. Maybe I should mention that it's only >> a test machine so I didn't create a swap partition (it has only one 6 >> GB / partition) - could this be the reason why? >> >> Thanks. > > > I doubt it but I don't know the code off by heart. A more likely > reason is your terminal settings, what's $TERM?
You are right: it's something to do with the $TERM environment variable. I ssh to the box from inside GNU screen so $TERM shows screen; OTOH, if I log on to the box directly, $TERM shows vt220. Should I export term vt220 in .profile? Thanks.
