On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 02:49:41PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
} 
} Ah, TOPS-20. My first job, back in '85, was admin'ing a DEC 20. It's a 
} shame VMS didn't incorporate command completion. I'm also suprised
} nobody's retrofitted it to Linux via readline. Precious few programs
} even use readline. How handy would filename completion and command
} recall be in an ftp client?

ncftp already incorporates both in an ftp client, and tcsh does both
using in a shell.  Both run under Linux as well as other Unices, and
come with the distributions I use. It is very useful.  I use them both
on LinuxPPC, HP-UX, and SunOS.

} 
} -Dave

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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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