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  From: Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com>
  To  : Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:03:19 +1100

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Turner" <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
To: "'LinuxSA (E-mail)'" <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:26 PM
Subject: 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?
<snip>
> 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".

That and "cat" is quicker to type than "conc<tabulate>", especially over
a 200 baud modem line.  :-)

There are also other issues, such as the maximum length of a command
line, the length of a path, and related data size issues.

Regards.

--
MICHAEL WARDLE
Adacel Technologies


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