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From: Sune Stjerneby <sust@uv.khs.dk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD1.1 newbie - PLEASE help!
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 12:22:09 +0100
Organization: Koege Business College, Denmark
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Eric Fischer wrote:
> 
> Manfred Matzinger  <matzing@ping.at> wrote:
> 
> > 2) How can I turn on filename completion and the command history for sh?
> > I can't find instructions with "man sh".
> 
> Turn on the line editing with "set -o vi" and you get history
> at the same time.  NetBSD's sh doesn't have filename completion,
> though I can give you a patch to add it if you want.

He could also simply use bash - the final frontier 8^)

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