I may be mis-understanding your question, but you have to be sure
history is enabled on bash and you have HISTFILE set.
CMD.EXE is a different shell with different history semantics.
Under bash, I set 'vi' to 'on' to get get 'vi' compatible editing, but
up/down arrow still work. You also have to
> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * On the subject of "Re: bash kills console history"
> * Sent on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:41:05 -0400 (EDT)
> * Honorable Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> On 20 Jun 2003, Sam Steingold wrote:
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> >
On 20 Jun 2003, Sam Steingold wrote:
> when I start a non-cygwin interactive application in a console window
> under cmd, I can recall the previous lines with the key and edit
> the current command line with and .
> when I start the same application under bash, I can no longer recall
> history
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