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Date:      Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:21:37 -0700
From:      Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
To:        Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net>, Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
Cc:        "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Wow!
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19980709112137.034bf904@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980709114508.4984D-100000@mariner.cris.com>
References:  <35A4F223.A9CBCB87@graphnet.com>

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At 11:48 AM 7/9/98 -0500, Andrew Short wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote:
>
>> in Linux there was a feature which was helpful with long filenames:
>> as you typed a filename, you could hit <Tab> and if what you've already
>> typed was unique, it would finish the name for you. Any equivalence in
>> FreeBSD?
>
>Sounds like a feature of the bash shell.  Install and use that you'll have
>your file (and directory) name completion back...just the way it always
>worked.
>
the csh shell does it too, but you  have to hit <Esc> instead of <Tab>

--Ludwig Pummer
ludwigp@bigfoot.com
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