Re: How can I retreive previous commands?

Use DOS version of SQL*Plus if you use a PC. Use ied if on HPUX (I have not tried this one).

Yong Huang
yhuang_at_indigopool.com

<sybrandb_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8rklnf$7rv$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <8rkei6$1t9$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> webqueen, queen of the web <webqueen_at_my-deja.com> wrote:
> > Im MySQL I hit up-arrow and can bring back the last command, or
> > pressing it n-times to go back to the nth previous command, I can then
> > line edit and botta-bing botta-boom I generate a new query.
> >
> > At the 8i line, pressing up-arrow returns ^[[A instead, Is there a
> > setting that enables this, or some other means to go back? Its slow,
> > tedious and annoying to have to repeatedly type in long queries.
> >
> > HUG,
> > PG
> >
> > --
> > Time is nature's way of preventing everything from happening at once.
> >
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> >
> Well you can of course *save* your sql, can you?
>
>
> Regards,
>
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> Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>
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Received on Fri Oct 06 2000 - 14:58:17 CDT