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From: retreat!drool@bisco.kodak.COM (Drool Rockworm)
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Subject: set filec for the Amiga?
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Date: 21 Feb 91 01:54:10 GMT
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Matt Ranney mranney@wybbs.mi.org asks:
> 
> Is there any equivalent to the Unix feature: filec (file completion)
> on the Amiga?  If you don't know what that does, it lets you avoid
> having to finsh typing large file names.  You just type enough
> characters to make it unique, hit escape, and bammo, your filename
> gets completed.  If there isn't a unique file, it completes as manny
> characters as it can.  
> 

Matt, the shell "sksh" is available for the Amiga and is a unix ksh
lookalike.  The file completion however, acts pretty much like it does in
csh.  It should be available on your favorite ftp site, or a local BBS.

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