JESS: command line behaviour on OSX

2006-11-15 Thread Robert Kildare
I have just installed Jess on my fancy new macbook (OSX_4). I find that using the command line is very limiting compared to the WinXP command line. There is no up/down arrow history, in particular. Does anyone know how I can get this functionality at the terminal, short of installing Windows as

Re: JESS: command line behaviour on OSX

2006-11-15 Thread Ernest Friedman-Hill
On Nov 15, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Robert Kildare wrote: I have just installed Jess on my fancy new macbook (OSX_4). I find that using the command line is very limiting compared to the WinXP command line. There is no up/down arrow history, in particular. Does anyone know how I can get this

Re: JESS: command line behaviour on OSX

2006-11-15 Thread James C. Owen
I've been using Mac's since they started using BSD as the foundation for OS X. The bash shell (default) has the up-down arrow commands for history. Mac is ideal for old Unix guys who grew up using the Unix command line and can switch between bash, korn, bourne and c shells. Personally,

Re: JESS: command line behaviour on OSX

2006-11-15 Thread Michael Smith
FWIW, I find an Emacs shell a wonderful, feature-rich way to interact with a command line to Jess (or CLIPS). Once in the command line this is essentially independent of the platform OS. But familiarity with Emacs would be required for this to be a good solution. - Mike On Nov 15, 2006,

Re: JESS: command line behaviour on OSX

2006-11-15 Thread Robert Kildare
like magic.. a satisfied customer :) ==Original message text=== On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:55:11 +1100 Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote: On Nov 15, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Robert Kildare wrote: I have just installed Jess on my fancy new macbook (OSX_4). I find that using the

Re: JESS: command line behaviour on OSX

2006-11-15 Thread James C. Owen
Or, maybe I just misunderstood the problem. And Ernest had a good suggestion as well... :-) SDG jco Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the

Re: JESS: multislot __data question

2006-11-15 Thread Ernest Friedman-Hill
You can handle the run continuously part using the slot-specific declaration in the trial deftemplate; see http://www.jessrules.com/ jess/docs/70/rules.html#slot-specific . As far as the single value, that's because each modify call sets the slot to contain a single item, the sum of ?x and