Oracle Rdb saves and allows you to access up to 20 of your most recently entered RDO commands. Use the UP-ARROW or CTRL/B keys to recall previously entered commands. Use the DOWN-ARROW key to reexamine a command that you had retrieved using the UP-ARROW key. This feature is designed for the convenience of RDO users. It greatly reduces the need to enter the RDO editing buffer to rerun one or more of your last 20 commands. The EDIT statement continues to be a useful tool for created RDO procedures in that it lets you take advantage of your editor's text manipulation features and it lets you edit multiple lines.
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Any string entered at the RDO> prompt is saved in the recall buffer. This includes all DCL commands prefaced by the dollar sign ($), commented text that begins with the exclamation point (!), and any RDO statements. The carriage return delimits each line written to the recall buffer. Thus, in the following example, four separate entries are written to the recall buffer: RDO> FOR E IN EMPLOYEES cont> WITH E.EMPLOYEE_ID BETWEEN "00164" AND "00175" cont> PRINT E.LAST_NAME, E.EMPLOYEE_ID cont> END_FOR The most recently typed command is at the top of the recall buffer. If the user enters CTRL/B at this point, the END_FOR statement would appear first. There are no parameters or logicals available to control the maximum number of lines saved in the recall buffer.