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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  To  : LinuxSA (E-mail) <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:56:29 +1030

Re: [OT] MS-FUD: Migrate from Linux to Windows

> > XP has that thing where you press Tab and it fills in the rest of the
> > directory/filename.... hahahahha   unix has been doing this for how many
> > years?
> 
> It's in windows 2000 as well, just not enabled by default.
> 
> I can't say for sure, but I believe this feature was in '4dos' before it
> was a part of bash.

Command completion has been around for a long time, even
before MS-DOS.  Richard knows the DEC products and could
probably take a stab at when he first saw it.

UNIX shells only gained command completion quite recently
(in the geological timescales of minicomputing), with the sh
and csh clones.  This is why we have "cat" rather than "concatenate".

It's made using UNIX a lot better, unlike username completion
which is a bad, sad idea (press Tab, wait for 100,000 users in
the LDAP directory to be ennumerated...)

Glen

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