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Date:      Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:28:46 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
To:        Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
Cc:        "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Wow!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980709122725.11603D-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35A4F223.A9CBCB87@graphnet.com>

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Hi,

> By _far_ the best OS I've ever used.

Great.

> 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?

Yep, but it depends on your shell (or you can probably change it in your
.*shrc).  I know the default in csh is escape for file completion and in
tcsh it's tab.  You can find tcsh in /usr/ports/shells.

Brett
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http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/

How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a light
bulb? Zero. They declared Darkness[tm] the standard.


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