Subject: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] maybe a faq,  but another tcsh->ksh93 
migration question (history)
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> For these things, I prefer to have my shell history *not* be shared with 
> all windows... but each window (or each shell process) to have its own 
> history.
> 
> Is there a way I can get this behavior with ksh93, instead of the 
> default "all windows share a common history file" behavior?  (Note: as a 
> consequence of this, I don't care if I don't have history saved to a 
> file -- in fact I prefer it *not* to be.)
> 
> Thanks.
> 

The simplest way is to set HISTFILE to a non existant file that can't
be created, for example
        HISTFILE=/noexist

David Korn
dgk at research.att.com

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