From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 16:02:49 +1000 From: Adrian Tritschler Subject: Re: [9fans] netcat, In-reply-to: <4966d9b576a55ad6325984e8e0e1ea87@9netics.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <44335D89.8010603@ajft.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) References: <4966d9b576a55ad6325984e8e0e1ea87@9netics.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2fd4d754-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. >=20 >=20 > 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... --------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Tritschler mailto:ajft@ajft.org Latitude 38=C2=B0S, Longitude 145=C2=B0E, Altitude 50m, Shoe size 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------