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didn't TOPS-20 just require you to type enough of an option/switch to /DISAMBIG it from any other potential conflicts?

• gumby 5y ago
  Honestly I can’t remember if that was the case (though it vaguely sounds correct) or if you had to complete (was that tab?). Now ELF is ubiquitous I wish the tab command completion were built into a section of the binary rather than being in sidecar files elsewhere in the filesystem, which is fragile.
  • fsckboy 5y ago
    i think tab would prompt you choices to enter next. possibly configurable. iirc this was all in a module that wasn't necessarily installed if your site couldn't spare the extra Ks of diskspace :)
    • gumby 5y ago
      Just have to buy another washing machine.