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From: Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] netcat,
Date: Wed,  5 Apr 2006 16:02:49 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44335D89.8010603@ajft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4966d9b576a55ad6325984e8e0e1ea87@9netics.com>

Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>>I was making a weak joke.  Once you've typed
>>
>>	scp user@h
>>
>>a naive completion algorithm would be:
>>- enumerate all hosts on the internet;
>>- eliminate those that don't start with `h';
>>- display the (massive list) of potential hostnames.
>>
>>At least if domain names were big-endian (edu.psu.cse), like file
>>names, once someone had typed
>>
>>	scp user@com.
>>
>>completion could avoid searching the net, org, mil, gov, us, ca, etc.
>>domains.
> 
> 
> I'm taking bets that this will be implemented sometime over
> the next year.

Maybe it was implemented last year, but everyone who has tried to use it
is still buffering the output...

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Adrian Tritschler                          mailto:ajft@ajft.org
Latitude 38°S, Longitude 145°E, Altitude 50m,      Shoe size 44
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-05  6:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-04 19:11 [9fans] netcat, the only stdin/stdout redirector to tcp/udp conns? Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-04-04 19:34 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-04-04 19:43   ` Paul Hebble
2006-04-04 20:36     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-04-05  0:36       ` matt
2006-04-04 20:44     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-04 20:53       ` uriel
2006-04-04 21:20     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-04-04 22:10       ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-05  2:32         ` David Leimbach
2006-04-05 16:54         ` Aharon Robbins
2006-04-04 23:46       ` geoff
2006-04-05  1:05     ` Anthony Sorace
2006-04-05  2:21       ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-05  2:35         ` David Leimbach
2006-04-05  2:39           ` geoff
2006-04-05  2:45             ` David Leimbach
2006-04-05  2:50               ` geoff
2006-04-05  4:38                 ` [9fans] netcat, Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-05  4:41                   ` geoff
2006-04-05  4:54                     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-05  4:46                   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-05  6:02                   ` Adrian Tritschler [this message]
2006-04-05 15:50                   ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-05 16:55                     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-05  2:44           ` [9fans] netcat, the only stdin/stdout redirector to tcp/udp conns? Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-05  4:38             ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-05  4:56             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-04 20:17 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-04 20:41   ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-04-04 22:45 ` Harri Haataja
2006-04-04 23:33 ` Taj Khattra
2006-04-05 10:34 ` Heiko Dudzus

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