Re: [9fans] netcat,

[Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>]

> 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.