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Date:      Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:48:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net>
To:        Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
Cc:        "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Wow!
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.980709114508.4984D-100000@mariner.cris.com>
In-Reply-To: <35A4F223.A9CBCB87@graphnet.com>

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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote:

> in Linux there was a feature which was helpful with long filenames:
> as you typed a filename, you could hit <Tab> and if what you've already
> typed was unique, it would finish the name for you. Any equivalence in
> FreeBSD?

Sounds like a feature of the bash shell.  Install and use that you'll have
your file (and directory) name completion back...just the way it always
worked.

I know i will get corrected if I am wrong in saying this, but I believe
that bash is the usual default shell for linux, but not for FreeBSD?  

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