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Date: Wed,  5 Apr 2006 14:46:04 +1000
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] netcat,
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there will be someone duped into attempting it ... open doesn't work.

brucee

On 4/5/06, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> 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.
>
>