> James Frye <fryeja@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I've just installed Fedora 8 on a new machine (Lenovo T61p), and am having > > problems getting > > tcsh to run correctly. The main problem is that when I exit, the .history > > file is destroyed. It's > > not that the current session history is not saved. I copied a .history > > file from my older machine > > loaded it, and the history mechanism works as expected for that session. > > On restart, though, > > I find that the .history file has been truncated to 0 bytes. > > Thank God, I'm not the only one on this planet with that problem. > I'm using the version of "tcsh" that comes with Fedora 8 (manually > installed with "yum" because someone decided that "tcsh" shouldn't > be part of the default installation any longer). I installed the "yum" version, and still have the same problems. My userid doesn't save history (though your trick works around it), root doesn't even execute its .login or .cshrc - but does seem to execute commands that are in .bashrc :-( > After some research with Google, I lost all hope because nobody > seems to use tcsh, fvwm2 and xterm nowadays. I'm a dying dinosaur. There is a fairly active fvwm forum, and ongoing development: fvwm.lair.be I can't really relate to the "dinosaur" comment. I think it's a different attitude. To me the computer is a tool with which I do certain things, not an end in itself, so I don't need/want decoration. James
