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Date:      Sat, 2 May 1998 18:54:07 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp.freebsd.org acting funny?
Message-ID:  <19980502185407.16709@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502174713.241Q-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>; from Ben Cohen on Sat, May 02, 1998 at 05:49:49PM %2B0100
References:  <19980502183606.64157@follo.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502174713.241Q-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>

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On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 05:49:49PM +0100, Ben Cohen wrote:
> > > The /bin/ftp client that comes with FreeBSD is actually quite nice
> > > IMHO (OK, it doesn't have bookmarks like ncftp2 does, but it has
> > > command history and command line editing which is all I ask for)
> > 
> > TAB COMPLETION!  :-)
> > 
> > Hmm - seems ftp has gotten that, too, along with the command line
> > editing (a merge from NetBSD that I'd forgotten).  I'll probably
> > switch back :-)
> 
> How do you get tab completion and command history/command line editing
> when using /usr/bin/ftp?  Mine doesn't do that.  (FreeBSD 2.2.5)

You upgrade to 2.2.6-stable or 3.0-current (no differences between
those two).

Eivind.

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