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- History
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- History is a command utility to save, load, or display the history buffer.
- It allows you to save and then preload a set of commands for working on
- a particular project. History works only from a CLI or other command shell
- and requires version 1.1 or later of ConMan.
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- Usage.
- The usage template for history looks like
- history [>savefile] [inputfile]
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- If you don't specify any options, the command displays the current buffer
- on the standard output stream. You can redirect this output into a file
- to save it (or perhaps edit it).
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- If you specify a filename argument after the command, History will load
- the contents of that file into the history buffer. The new lines are
- loaded just as though they had been typed in. You can use the CTRL-B key
- to clear the buffer first if you don't want any of the current commands.
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- The lines that you put into the history buffer should be obtained by
- capturing a previous session. If you try something silly like loading
- an executable file into the buffer, nothing will break, but you'll end
- up with a lot of funny-looking characters in the command history.
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- Errors.
- History checks to be sure that you've run it from a command shell that
- uses ConMan, since the history is maintained by ConMan. If you try it
- from another environment, it will issue the message
- Not a ConMan console window
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