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From: jlo@elan.elan.com (Jeff Lo)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Ken Greer's newcsh for SPARC environment
Message-ID: <625@elan.elan.com>
Date: 14 Sep 89 17:10:57 GMT
References: <11820@cgl.ucsf.EDU> <622@elan.elan.com> <2442@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: jlo@elan.com (Jeff Lo)
Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <2442@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>Some form of file name (but *NOT* command) completion appeared in the
>4.3BSD C shell; I don't know if it is derived from the "tcsh" code or
>not.  That form requires that you do a "set filec" to make file name
>completion work.  I don't think it contains autologout code, either.

If I remember right, back when I was at Berkeley, a guy there named
Ed Wang rewrote a chunk of csh, including the filename completion
sometime around 1984-5, his changes being folded into the 4.3 BSD
csh.  So I imagine the Sun and 4.3 code is not derived from Ken Greer's
code.
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