Catching console output interactively

[Michael Hudson]

"Byrom, R (Rob) " <R.Byrom at rl.ac.uk> writes:

> hi,
> 
> I'd like to be able to trap console output as the user writes interactively.
> For example if the user press the up or down keys I'd like to be able to
> catch this and return the last executed command (a bit like the bash_history
> idea). Can anyone point me in the right direction?

What platform?

Cheers,
mwh

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