ports/92817: ksh93: history does not work

[Joe Kelsey]

The following reply was made to PR ports/92817; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joe Kelsey <joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/92817: ksh93: history does not work
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:52:03 -0800

 You apparantly think that bash and ksh can share history files.  This is
 completely incorrect.  You cannot use your .bash_history file as input
 to ksh.
 
 The solution would involve setting a ksh environment in ~/envfile and
 arranging that when ksh starts you export ENV=~/envfile
 
 I have no difficulty using ksh as my login shell and thus do not even
 try to ever run anything else.  I recommend that you discontinue use of
 bash and simply use ksh alone.
 
 I cannot reproduce your problem report from the information provided.
 If you want me to spend more time researching this problem, then I need
 more information, such as your current environment (env command), your
 current .profile and your current ENV file.
 
 /Joe