Newbie issue: shell command history not working

[BigTool4U]

Hi to all,
I'm a new EAB user that after 30 years returns to the Amiga world thanks to emulation.
When I was a teen I used my A500 only for games so I don't have any past knowledge of Workbench/AmigaOS.

In basically all the guides I found I read that the Amiga Shell has a command history function, here an example:
https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/AmigaO...ommand_History

Following "The Green Amiga Alien Guide" I created 3 WinUAE configs: A500 with 20MB HD and WB 1.3.3, A600HD/40 with WB 2.0.5, A1200HD/60 with WB 3.1 and a shared directory.
And in all these configs the command history doesn't work , but it works in the preconfigured configs of Amiga Forever!

Since I want to copy in the shared directory all the versions of Flashback (to do some comparisons, basically 20 FDs), that function would be very useful!
In a guide I read that you need to press CTRL+D while starting the Shell but apparently it doesn't work...

Any help will be very appreciated, thanks in advance and greetings from Italy!


SOLVED: https://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p...3&postcount=12

[chip]

Greetings from Italy

Welcome to the forum !

[Dan]

Try adding

mount newcon:

in the startup sequence. (you have to have the file newcon.handler in the L directory)

[daxb]

That AmigaOS Wiki is target to OS 4 what has advanced features. At least up to OS 3.1 there is not command history. Edit: I was thinking of text scroll back buffer. I think VincEd that comes with OS 3.9 (optional package?) supports command history. Other Shell replacements do have it to like KingCON. So it depends on what Shell do you use.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by daxb

That AmigaOS Wiki is target to OS 4 what has advanced features. At least up to OS 3.1 there is not command history.

It's been added to Classic WB Lite somehow when you run CLI or Shell

[thomas]

Originally Posted by daxb

At least up to OS 3.1 there is not command history.

That's not true. Command history is present since WB 1.3. In 1.3 you need to mount and use NEWCON as mentioned above, in 2.0 and above it's built in. Actually it's input history, not command history. Every input is remembered by the console window and lost if you close the window.

[Nightshft]

AFAIK ClassicWB uses KingCon.
It's really much nicer to use. Also filename completion is a feature I don't want to miss anymore.

http://aminet.net/package/util/shell/KingCON_1.3

[daxb]

Ups. I've confound command history with scroll back buffer (history). Sorry!

[BigTool4U]

Originally Posted by DamienD

It's been added to Classic WB Lite somehow when you run CLI or Shell

What's the difference between CLI and Shell?

I tried Classic WB Full and it doesn't work from Shell...

EDIT: http://classicwb.abime.net/classicweb/multiboot.htm <- I have to try!

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by BigTool4U

What's the difference between CLI and Shell?

They are the same really

Originally Posted by BigTool4U

I tried Classic WB Full and it doesn't work from Shell...

EDIT: http://classicwb.abime.net/classicweb/multiboot.htm <- I have to try!

I've only ever used "Classic WB Lite" and it works there i.e. type a command, press <Enter>, type another command, press <Enter>; now use the <Up Arrow> to scroll back through them.

[BigTool4U]

Nothing, it doesn't work for me, I tried with a clean installation of Lite and an updated installation to WB 3.1, same results.

Originally Posted by thomas

That's not true. Command history is present since WB 1.3. In 1.3 you need to mount and use NEWCON as mentioned above, in 2.0 and above it's built in. Actually it's input history, not command history. Every input is remembered by the console window and lost if you close the window.

Exactly as I found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaDOS#Console
https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/AmigaD....28Obsolete.29


So should it be enabled by default in WB2/3?

[thomas]

Originally Posted by BigTool4U

I created 3 WinUAE configs

Are you sure that the cursor keys actually work in your configs? Maybe you assigned a joystick to the cursor keys. Check the gameports panel.

[Thomas Richter]

Originally Posted by DamienD

They are the same really

Well, for all practical purposes, yes. But if you want to be 100% correct, no. The resident list of the dos.library contains three entries: CLI, Shell, and BootShell. While they all point to the same shell segment by default, they need not to be the shell. The boot shell is the shell that executes the startup-system. The "shell" is the thing used by newshell and system() unless you say otherwise by a tag. CLI is probably only for backwards compatibility.

[BigTool4U]

Originally Posted by thomas

Are you sure that the cursor keys actually work in your configs? Maybe you assigned a joystick to the cursor keys. Check the gameports panel.

Oh my...
Yes, in "Port B" I had "Keyboard Layout B", I set it to < none > and now it works...
THIS is truly a newbie error, shame on me!


Guys, I'm sorry if I wasted your time for a so stupid mistake but thanks a lot, I learnt so many things!

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by BigTool4U

In basically all the guides I found I read that the Amiga Shell has a command history function,

Ciao, in the Workbench 1.3 there are two similar commands that are not the same man or CLI and SHELL see screenshot, with SHELL you have the function of command history, while with CLI you don't have this function !

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by BigTool4U

What's the difference between CLI and Shell?

...and besides thomas's post, here's an explanation from EAB's resident Hardware moderator Jope:

http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=2546

Originally Posted by BigTool4U

Oh my...
Yes, in "Port B" I had "Keyboard Layout B", I set it to < none > and now it works...
THIS is truly a newbie error, shame on me!

Guys, I'm sorry if I wasted your time for a so stupid mistake but thanks a lot, I learnt so many things!

Don't worry, we've all made that mistake in the past

[BigTool4U]

Really interesting, thanks again to all!

[AmigaHope]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

Ciao, in the Workbench 1.3 there are two similar commands that are not the same man or CLI and SHELL see screenshot, with SHELL you have the function of command history, while with CLI you don't have this function !

In Workbench 1.3, "Shell" opens a NEWCON: terminal, while "CLI" opens a CON: terminal. CON: is the terminal/shell built into the ROM, NEWCON: is a better terminal/shell that comes on disk in 1.3

On the Amiga, terminal emulators and shells usually came together in one monolithic console device ("CON:" being the default one in the ROM). There are also shell-only TTY-style handlers you can install that allow you to use whatever terminal emulator you want to connect to them, and if you want a different shell in a CON: window you can run a port of bash or something and divorce the shell from the terminal, but in general they come as inseparable monolithic hunks of code. KINGCON: being one of the more popular upgraded ones.

The upgraded features of NEWCON: in 1.3 were rolled into the basic CON: in AmigaOS 2.0 and up, so NEWCON: becomes irrelevant after 1.3.

but yeah tl;dr. on 1.3 . CLI command opens CON:, Shell command opens NEWCON: