From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 19 16:37:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA05670 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 16:37:35 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA05653 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 16:37:31 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA11663; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 00:37:27 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA28514; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 00:37:27 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA04832; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 23:30:27 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510192230.XAA04832@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: device number for watchdog board driver To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 23:30:26 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199510190909.CAA13072@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Oct 19, 95 02:09:54 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 669 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > Curious what are you running over there... > > dev_mkdb - create /dev database > > SYNOPSIS > dev_mkdb > > Interesting. In order to answer your question, i typed "dev", and > > then hit TAB (in tcsh). "dev_mkdb devmenue" was the answer. Ok, "m", > > another TAB -- mucho surprised! :-) I know how to read a man page. Seriously. :-) But i wrote that the next char was "m", not "_". This gave me "devm", which tcsh has been expanding to "devmenue"... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)