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From: klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Filename completion in Apollo's C shell
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.141523.26041@diku.dk>
Date: 29 Nov 90 14:15:23 GMT
References: <4e42a679.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <1990Nov28.081721.971@alphalpha.com>
Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen
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nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:

>In article <4e42a679.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> smv@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Valentine) writes:
>>Filename completion does not work in a pad, and we have no plans to change this.

>Actually, if you think about it you can make it work.  It involves
>writing a small program which sends some DM commands to cut the
>token before the cursor.  It then takes that, does the expansion
>and then puts it back into a paste buffer.  Then it pastes the
>contents of of the buffer back into the input pad.  Unfortunately
>the process is a little slow (or rather it was slow back when I
>wrote one on my DN400).  It might be usable nowadays.  It has one
>real nice advantage in that it works anywhere, not just in a particular
>shell.  You're on your own for writing it though, I've long since lost
>the source.
>					-kee

There is such a program in the ADUS library, it is called
recognize. Unfortunately it gives the resulting pathname
in UPPER CASE, so it is not very useful with SR10 . Our
version of the ADUS library is several years old, so there
may be a newer version of recognize that preserves case.

Klaus Kristiansen