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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : LinuxSA (E-mail) <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:40:27 +1030

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

Glen Turner wrote:

>>>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.


VMS had command and flag (introduced by /) completion since at least 
1984, and maybe before. However, its completion was different to what we 
see in tcsh and bash today. VMS could execute the command for you and 
understand the flags, as long as you typed enough to distinguish it from 
any other command and flag for that command. It did not do 
file/directory name completion, as I recall.

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