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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] netcat,
	the only stdin/stdout redirector to tcp/udp conns?
Date: Tue,  4 Apr 2006 19:50:39 -0700
From: geoff@collyer.net
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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.