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From: "James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help
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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:05:18 -0800
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> Only problem with putting it in rio is that you don't have
> quite enough information there.  To do intelligent history
> and completion, you really want to know a few things like
> what program you're doing it for, what their current directory
> is, what their environment variables are, and so on.

Why wouldn't it be a history server which sits inbetween
the keyboard and the rio process?  Records everything sent
in, intercepts whatever you use for commands in order to
print bits of a log back to rio?

Jim