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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:59:16 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk>
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav_?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, Timothy J Luoma <public+FreeBSD@fdt.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X desktop contest? + Desktop Env 
Message-ID:  <199811111759.JAA04084@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:30:45 GMT." <19981111123045.A12868@helan.org> 

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> It would be nice if this could be hooked through histedit or at least
> made to work the same as in ftp (the main point being, either with or 
> without trailing / for directories but congruent between the two; for
> example bash uses / but ftp doesn't, and that's annoying).

Ftp can't tell whether what it's just completed is a directory or not 
without chdir'ing into it.  That might well be unacceptably slow.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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