Newbie- how to basics

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Tony" == Tony C <cappy2112 at yahoo.com> writes:
    Tony> Another useful feature would be command line history (up
    Tony> arrow, down arrow, etc), like in the Unix shells.

You may want to look at ipython, which has a number nice interactive
features in the shell: remembers previous commands between sessions,
TAb completion on variables/functions, history matching only the typed
cahracters, ....

http://www-hep.colorado.edu/~fperez/ipython/

John Hunter