On 4/14/24 2:43 PM, Zachary Santer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 4:10 PM Chet Ramey wrote: >> >> The original intent was to allow the shell to drive a long-running process >> that ran more-or-less in parallel with it. Look at examples/scripts/bcalc >> for an example of that kind of use. > > $ ./bcalc > equation: -12 > ./bcalc: line 94: history: -1: invalid option Good catch, thanks. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/