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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] netcat,
Date: Tue,  4 Apr 2006 21:38:00 -0700
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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> 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.