On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:06:57PM -0700, Mark Yieh wrote:
> I just noticed that when I try to recall my history of commands by  
> issuing a "fc -l" command it only shows me the last 16 commands even  
> though my $HISTSIZE is the default 500. Anyone know why it's doing this? 
> I also tried to set my $HISTFILE to $HOME/.history just to see if that 
> makes any difference, but it doesn't.
>
> I'm using the default ksh shell on a GENERIC 4.5 kernel.

"fc -l -500" would show you the last 500 commands.  See ksh(1) for the
proper usage.

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