There is also a mailing list for sam users. To create a new window, you select New from the right button menu, and sweep out the window you want. Thus, if you make a typing error in a command, you fix the error, select the entire line, and resubmit it. This obsoletes the need for built-in command history as found in current Unix shells, such as ksh , bash and tcsh . Furthermore, windows provide more complicated text editing capabilities.
All text is kept in the window.
Hold mode is indicated by an extra white border inside the window, and a larger, white arrow for the mouse cursor. You might use this, for example, when sending mail to someone. Run the Mail command, and then go into hold mode. Type in, edit, and rearrange your letter to your hearts content. Then leave hold mode, and out goes your mail to the Mail program.